The global change research community has recognized that new pathway and scenario concepts are needed to implement impact and vulnerability assessment that is logically consistent across local, regional and global scales. For impact and vulnerability assessment, new socio-economic pathway and sce...
Valdivia RO
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Antle, John M.
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Claessens, Lieven
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Rosenzweig, Cynthia
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Ruane, Alex C.
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Vervoort, Joost M.
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[Representative agricultural pathways and scenarios: a trans-disciplinary approach to agricultural model inter-comparison, improvement and climate impact assessment]
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Representative agricultural pathways and scenarios: a trans-disciplinary approach to agricultural model inter-comparison, improvement and climate impact assessment
Agriculture is vital to livelihoods in West Africa. It is the main source of employment for the 290 million people who live in the region, employing 60 percent of the workforce, and accounts for 35 percent of the region’s gross domestic product (GDP). This crucial economic activity is endangered ...
Jalloh, Abdulai
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Thomas, Timothy S.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Roy-Macauley, Harold
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[West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. IFPRI Issue Brief No. 75]
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West African agriculture and climate change: a comprehensive analysis. IFPRI Issue Brief No. 75
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa covering about 274,000 square kilometers. It is bordered by the Republic of Mali on the north and west; by Cote d’Ivoire on the Southwest; by Ghana, Togo, and Benin on the South; and by Niger on the east. The country has a dry tropi¬cal climate ...
Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of weather conditions projected by global climate models will challenge physiological limits of crops and exacerbate the global food challenge by 2...
Takle ES
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Gustafson D
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Beachy, Roger N.
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Palazzo, Amanda
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[US food security and climate change: agricultural futures]
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US food security and climate change: agricultural futures
This issue of Agricultural Economics is a special issue containing articles on model performance in assessing the effects of climate change, bioenergy policy, and socioeconomics on agriculture. The contributions present results from a global economic model intercomparison activity undertaken as p...
Nelson, Gerald C.
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Shively GE
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[Modeling climate change and agriculture: an introduction to the special issue]
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Modeling climate change and agriculture: an introduction to the special issue
Agriculture is unique among economic sectors in the nature of impacts from climate change. The production activity that transforms inputs into agricultural outputs involves direct use of weather inputs (temperature, solar radiation available to the plant, and precipitation). Previous studies of t...
Nelson, Gerald C.
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Mensbrugghe, Dominique van der
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Ahammad, H.
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Blanc, Elodie
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Calvin, Katherine
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Hasegawa, Tomoko
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Havlík, Petr
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Heyhoe, Edwina
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Kyle, Page
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Lotze-Campen, Hermann
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Lampe M. von
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Meijl, Hans van
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Müller, Christoph
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Reilly J
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Robertson, Richard D.
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Sands, Ronald D.
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Schmitz, Christoph
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Tabeau, Andrzej
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Takahashi, K.
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Valin, Hugo
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Willenbockel, Dirk
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[Agriculture and climate change in global scenarios: why don't the models agree]
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Agriculture and climate change in global scenarios: why don't the models agree
Changes in agricultural land use have important implications for environmental services. Previous studies of agricultural land-use futures have been published indicating large uncertainty due to different model assumptions and methodologies. In this article we present a first comprehensive compar...
Schmitz, Christoph
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Meijl, Hans van
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Kyle, Page
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Fujimori, Shinichiro
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Gurgel, Angelo
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Havlík, Petr
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Heyhoe, Edwina
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Popp, Alexander
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Sands, Ronald D.
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Tabeau, Andrzej
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Mensbrugghe, Dominique van der
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Lampe M. von
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Wise, Marshall
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Blanc, Elodie
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Hasegawa, Tomoko
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Kavallari, Aikaterini
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Valin, Hugo
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[Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison]
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Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison
When politicians fail to agree, very often it is the poorest who suffer most. More than 25 million additional children could go hungry through the failure of Copenhagen, says Gerald C. Nelson of the International Food Policy Research Institute. As crop yields decline, the calories available per p...
Nelson, Gerald C.
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[The perfect storm: food security and nutrition under climate change]
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The perfect storm: food security and nutrition under climate change
Recent studies assessing plausible futures for agricultural markets and global food security have had contradictory outcomes. To advance our understanding of the sources of the differences, 10 global economic models that produce long-term scenarios were asked to compare a reference scenario with ...
Lampe M. von
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Willenbockel, Dirk
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Ahammad, H.
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Blanc, Elodie
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Cai, Yongxia
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Calvin, Katherine
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Fujimori, Shinichiro
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Hasegawa, Tomoko
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Havlík, Petr
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Heyhoe, Edwina
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Kyle, Page
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Lotze-Campen, Hermann
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Nelson, Gerald C.
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Sands, Ronald D.
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Schmitz, Christoph
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Tabeau, Andrzej
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Valin, Hugo
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Mensbrugghe, Dominique van der
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Meijl, Hans van
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[Why do global long-term scenarios for agriculture differ? An overview of the AgMIP Global Economic Model Intercomparison]
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Why do global long-term scenarios for agriculture differ? An overview of the AgMIP Global Economic Model Intercomparison