Executive Committee (2018-2020)
John Antle
Dr. John Antle is a Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at Oregon State University and a University Fellow at Resources for the Future. His AgMIP research contributions focus on the sustainability of agricultural systems in industrialized and developing countries, including climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in agriculture; assessment of environmental and social impacts of agricultural technologies; and geologic carbon sequestration. He is a Fellow and past President of the American Agricultural Economics Association and serves as Co-Leader of the AgMIP Regional Economics team.
Senthold Asseng
Dr. Senthold Asseng is a Professor in the Agricultural & Biological Engineering Department at University of Florida. He has contributed to AgMIP in many capacities. Most notably, as a Co-Leader of the AgMIP-Wheat team, Dr. Asseng has been at the forefront of both US-based and internationally-organized research projects and his work has helped set the standard for AgMIP crop model intercomparisons. Additionally, Dr. Asseng has developed and linked AgMIP networks both regionally and globally, and his commitment to expanding the AgMIP network for the betterment of research is extremely valuable.
Jerry Hatfield
Dr. Jerry L. Hatfield is currently the Laboratory Director of the USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment. His personal research focuses on quantifying the interactions among the components of the soil-plant-atmosphere system to quantify resilience of cropping systems to climate change. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, and past President of the American Society of Agronomy. Dr. Hatfield serves as Co-Leader of the AgMIP Crop-Water-ET Initiative.
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Dr. Hermann Lotze-Campen is Chair of Research Domain Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities at PIK and Professor of Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change at HU Berlin. He is Co-Leader of the AgMIP Global Economics Team and is committed to linking global analysis with Regional Integrated Assessments. Moreover, he is also committed to connecting AgMIP work beyond AgMIP communities. He is a member of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP), coordinated in his Research Domain at PIK, and is eager to strengthen connections between initiatives.
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Cynthia Rosenzweig is Senior Research Scientist at NASA GISS where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. She is also Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute and a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College. She is currently spearheading the AgMIP Coordinated Global and Regional Assessment on the effects of climate change on the food system, including nutrition. Dr. Rosenzweig is also Coordinating Lead Author of the Food Security Chapter for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land.
Anthony Whitbread
Dr. Anthony Whitbread is Research Program Director of the Innovations Systems in the Drylands, ICRISAT, and a Professor and former Chair of the Crop Production Systems in the Tropics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He has been a key partner with AgMIP in its Regional Research Team work to develop and utilize Regional Integrated Assessments and has made strong contributions to agricultural modeling by promoting a diverse range of modeling frameworks (including livestock), tools, and scales to meet the stakeholders’ needs. His work throughout the CGIAR centers has connected modelers, researchers, and stakeholders across the globe.
Steering Council (2018-2020)
Co-chairs
Ghassem Asrar
Ghassem R. Asrar is Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory hosted by the University of Maryland, USA. Prior to this position, he served as Director of World Climate Research Program (WCRP) in Geneva, Switzerland (2008-2013); the Deputy Administrator of Agricultural Research Service (ARS), of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (2006-2008); and in several science positions with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1987-2006. Dr. Asrar earned his graduate degrees in civil engineering and environmental physics from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. He conducted research and trained undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students in academia prior to joining NASA in 1987. He has authored more than 180 peer-reviewed scientific and technical papers and books, primarily in the fields of Earth system science and remote sensing. Dr. Asrar is chief editor and member of editorial boards of several scientific journals.
Jean-Francois Soussana
Jean-Francois Soussana is Vice-Chair of INRA for International Affairs since 2017, after being Scientific Director for Environment since 2010. He obtained his PhD in plant physiology at USTL Montpellier in 1986 after an engineer degree in agronomy. After becoming a senior scientist, he led a research lab on grassland ecosystems and global change. Since 1998, Dr. Soussana is member of the Working Group II of IPCC and was Lead Author for the 3rd, 4th and 5th Assessment Reports and is now lead author for the Special Report on land and climate change. He contributes to scientific expertise for FAO (e.g. State of Food and Agriculture, 2016). He coordinates national and European (EC FP5, FP7 and H2020) research projects on climate change and agriculture. He co-chairs the Integrative Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases (48 countries) and the Steering Council of AgMIP, an international modeling program on climate change impacts on agriculture. Dr. Soussana has led the sectorial committee on ecosystems and sustainable development of the French research agency (ANR) and is member of the governing boards of the joint programing of research on agriculture, food security and climate change (FACCE JPI, 22 countries) and of the climate KIC (European Knowledge and Innovation Community). He is also a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Lima-Paris initiative “4 per 1000. Soils for Food Security and Climate” which has been signed during the climate negotiations of COP21. Dr. Soussana has published over 150 refereed research papers in international journals, cited close to 17,000 times (Google Scholar), as well as two books and dozens of book chapters. He has developed novel experimental and mathematical modelling approaches to the impacts of global change on agriculture, soils, biodiversity, carbon and nitrogen cycles and greenhouse gas emissions.
Members
Martin Bwalya
Currently, Head, Programme Development and Strategic Planning in NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NEPAD Agency) – African Union’s Implementing Agency – is a Machinery Design and Management Engineer by training. Has worked many years in machinery design, specialising in research-and-development of farm reduced tillage equipment within the context of conservation agriculture.Has since 2000, worked in several international organisations in the field of development, in general, and agriculture, food and nutrition security, in particular. Joined NEPAD Agency in 2008 as lead specialist on land and water and farm machinery, moving on to Head the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) – Africa’s continental framework for agricultural transformation – 2009 until 2014; with a focus on strategic leadership and coordination of continental, regional and national expert support on formulation, implementation and evaluation of national and regional agricultural development plans-policiesHas extensive experience in research, foresight analytical work and African development issues including connecting across various national and regional needs and interests in multi-disciplinary and multi-sectorial systems. Additional to agriculture-SLWM and farm machinery, thematic focus include, irrigation and climate smart agriculture – co-chair of the Global Alliance for CSA (GACSA), 2014 to 2018. Work on CAADP gave Mr Bwalya extensive exposal and experience with rural livelihoods, in general, and farming, in particular, in over 30 countries in Africa
Ashfaq Ahmad Chattha
Peter Craufurd
Jessica Fanzo
Jessica Fanzo serves as the Senior Nutrition and Food Systems Officer in the Nutrition and Food Systems Division (ESN) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). While at the UN, Jessica is taking a leave of absence from her Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professorship of Global Food and Agriculture Policy and Ethics at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University. She also serves as the Director of the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program at Hopkins. She is the Co-Chair of the Global Nutrition Report and was the team leader for the UN High Level Panel of Experts report on Food Systems and Nutrition. Her area of expertise is on the linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and the environment in the context of sustainable and equitable diets and livelihoods. She was the first laureate of the Carasso Foundation’s Sustainable Diets Prize in 2012 for her work on sustainable food and diets for long-term human health. Jessica has a PhD in nutrition from University of Arizona.
Molly Jahn
Soora Naresh Kumar
Morven A. McLean
Dr. McLean first joined the ILSI Research Foundation in in 2009 as Director of the Center for Environmental Risk Assessment, and in 2013 was additionally appointed lead for sustainable agriculture and nutrition security across the ILSI organization internationally. She has held the position of Chief of Canada’s Plant Biotechnology Office, the federal regulatory authority for the assessment and release of genetically modified plants, and was President of AGBIOS, a consultancy that works internationally with governments, non-governmental organizations, and the public and private sectors on issues of policy and regulation pertaining to genetically modified foods, crops, and forest tree species. Dr. McLean has served as a technical expert on biotechnology risk assessment, regulation and policy for many organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development, the United National Environmental Program and the Secretariat to the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as many national governments.
Dr. McLean received her B.Sc. (Agriculture) from McGill University, M.Sc. in environmental biology from the University of Guelph, and Ph.D. in molecular plant virology from the University of British Columbia. She completed her post-doctoral training with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada’s Vancouver Research Station.
Prabhu Pingali
Michael Robertson
Michael Robertson is the Deputy Director of CSIRO Agriculture and Food. He is based in Perth, Western Australia. Educated in New Zealand and Australia, Michael has had a 30 years research career in crop physiology, agronomy, farming systems and modelling, working in the Australian tropics, subtropics, Mediterranean zone as well as developing countries in Asia and Africa. He has produced over 150 journal articles and been an active contributor to the APSIM modelling system and in recent times been overseeing CSIRO’s efforts in ‘digital agriculture’.
Mark W. Rosegrant
Martin van Ittersum
Yan Zhu
Ex-Officio Members
Alessandro Moscuzza
Marco V. Sánchez
Wei Xiong
Coordination Unit
Science
Alex Ruane, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA (Leader)
International
Carolyn Mutter, Columbia University, USA (Leader)
Erik Mencos Contreras, Columbia University, USA (Project Coordinator)
Research Topic Leaders
Crop Model Intercomparisons
Barley
Davide Cammarano, James Hutton Institute, USA
Bioenergy
Gopal Kakani, Oklahoma State University, USA
David LeBauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Canola
Enli Wang, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Fruits & Vegetables
Senthold Asseng, University of Florida
Grasslands Modelling
Jean-Francois Soussana, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan
Fiona Ehrhardt, National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture and Nanjing Agriculture University, China
Livestock
Mario Herrero Acosta CSIRO and University of Queensland – Agriculture and Food Systems, Australia
Katrine Descheemaeker, Wageningen University – Plant Production Systems, The Netherlands
Maize
Jean Louis Durand, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
Ken Boote, University of Florida, USA
Potato
David Fleischer, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, USA
Rice
Toshihiro Hasegawa, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan
Yan Zhu, National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture and Nanjing Agriculture University, China
Lloyd T Wilson, Texas A&M University, USA
Roberto Confalonieri, University of Milan, Italy
Soybean
Ken Boote, University of Florida, USA
Montserrat Salmeron Cortasa, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, UK
Wheat
Senthold Asseng, University of Florida, USA
Frank Ewert, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Germany
Heidi Weber, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Germany
Pierre Martre, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France
Crop Grid Intercomparisons
AgGRID-GGCMI
Christoph Müller, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Joshua Elliot, University of Chicago, USA
Economic Intercomparisons
Global Economics
Keith Wiebe, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA (Coordinator)
Hermann Lotze-Campen, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Regional Economics
John Antle, Oregon State University
Roberto Valdivia, Oregon State University
Cross-Cutting Topics
Aggregation & Scaling
Frank Ewert, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Germany
Medha Devare, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
Callibration
Daniel Wallach, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France (Co-Leader)
Uncertainty
Daniel Wallach, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France (Co-Leader)
Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
Integrative Topics
Coordinated Climate-Crop Modeling Project (C3MP)
Alex Ruane, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA (Co-Leader)
Sonali McDermid, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA (Co-Leader)
Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA (Co-Leader)
Alex Ruane, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA (Co-Leader)
Impacts Explorer
Roger Magarey, North Carolina State University, USA
Low- Input Farming Systems
Marc Corbeels, CIRAD, France
Cheyrl Porter, University of Florida, US
Regional Integrated Assessments (Modeling for Sustainable Farming Systems)
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, USA
John Antle, Oregon State University, USA
James W. Jones, University of Florida, USA
Alex C Ruane, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA
Roberto Valdivia, Oregon State University, USA
Representative Agricultural Pathways (RAPs)
Roberto Valdivia, Oregon State University, USA
John Antle, Oregon State University, USA
Stakeholder Processes
Wendy-Lin Bartels, University of Florida, USA (Leader)
Amy Sullivan, Bridgewater Consulting, South Africa
Key Interactions
AgDIG
Cheryl Porter, University of Florida, USA
Medha Devare, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
Pests and Diseases
Roger Magarey, North Carolina State University, USA
Marcello Donatelli, CREA, The Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis for Agricultural Economics, Italy
Serge Savary, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, France
Simone Bregaglio, CREA, The Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis for Agricultural Economics, Italy
Nutrition
Adam Drewnowski, University of Washington, USA
Jessica Fanzo, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ozone Modelling
Frank Dentener, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy
Frank Ewert, University of Bonn, Germany
Lisa Emberson, The University of York, UK
Maurits VandenBerg, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Soils and Crop Rotations Modelling
Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, USA
L.T Wilson, Texas A&M University, USA
Water Resources Modelling
Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, USA
Regional Research Leaders
Australia
Peter Thorburn, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Australia
East Asia
Wei Xiong, International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center, Kenya
Yan Zhu, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Europe
Martin Banse, University of Gottingen, Germany
Reimund Rotter, University of Oxford, UK
Marc Corbeels, Cirad – La recherche agronomique pour le développement
Heidi Webber, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Latin-American and Carribbean
Roberto Valdivia, Oregon State University, USA
Kelly Witkowski, Interamerican Institute for Coorperation on Agriculture, USA
North America
Jerry Hatfield, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service
Bruno Basso, Michigan State University
South Asia
Nataraja Subash, ICAR-IIFSR, India (Indo-Gangetic Basin)
Ashfaq Ahmad Chatta, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (Pakistan)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Wiltrud Durand, Agricultural Research Council, South Africa (Southern Africa)
Sabine Homann, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Zimbabwe (Southern Africa Livestock)
Dilys S. MacCarthy, University of Ghana, Ghana (Western Africa)
Oliver Crespo, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Principal Investigators (prior to 2018)
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, USA
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies where she heads the Climate Impacts Group. Her research involves the development of interdisciplinary methodologies to assess the potential impacts of and adaptations to global environmental change. She is also a professor at Barnard College and a Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia Earth Institute.
James W. Jones, University of Florida, USA
Dr. James W. Jones is a professor at the University of Florida and he specializes in agricultural production systems analysis, simulation, crop and soil modeling, environmental effects on crop growth and yield, and computer applications in agriculture. His research includes measuring and assessing soil carbon sequestration by agricultural systems in developing countries, and climate information systems for agriculture and water resource management in the southeastern U.S.A.
Jerry Hatfield, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, USA
Dr. Jerry L. Hatfield is currently the Laboratory Director of the USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa. His personal research focuses on quantifying the interactions among the components of the soil-plant-atmosphere system to quantify resilience of cropping systems to climate change.
John Antle, Oregon State University
Dr. John Antle is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, and a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. His current research focuses on the sustainability of agricultural systems in industrialized and developing countries, including climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation in agriculture; assessment of environmental and social impacts of agricultural technologies; and geologic carbon sequestration. He is a Fellow and past President of the American Agricultural Economics Association.
Steering Council (prior to 2018)
Sandy Andelman, Conservation International, USA
Eduardo Assad, Embrapa Informatica Agropecuaria, Brazil
Boubacar Barry, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, Burkina Faso
Peter Craufurd, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Kenya
Jerry Hjelle, International Life Sciences Institute, USA
Julie Howard, USA
Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Brian Keating, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia
Prabhu Pingali, Cornell University, USA
John Porter, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Mark Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
Phil Thornton, International Livestock Research Institute, United Kingdom
Martin van Ittersum, Wageningen University UR, Netherlands
Wei Xiong, University of Florida, USA
Ex Officio Members
Alessandro Moscuzza, UK Aid, United Kingdom
Marc Sadler, The World Bank Group, USA
Steve Shafer, United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, USA
Rob Vos, Food and Agriculture Organization, Italy
Stanley Wood, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
Science Steering Group (2010-2014)
Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Co-chair, World Meteorological Organization, India
Martin Parry, Co-chair, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
PK Aggarwal, International Water Management Institute and Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, India
Eduardo Assad, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Brazil
Andre Bationo, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, Burkina Faso
Michele Bernardi, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Retired), Italy
Mark Cane, Columbia University, USA
Mark Howden, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia
Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Mark Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA
Jean-Francois Soussana, Institut National de La Recherche Agronomique, France
Philip Thornton, International Livestock Research Institute Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, United Kingdom
Martin van Ittersum, Wageningen University – Plant Production Systems, The Netherlands