The first decade of the 21st century has seen several harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food price spike of 2008, with its consequent food riots and resulting political changes in several countries, awoke the world’s leaders to the re-emergence of this threat to human ...
Nelson, Gerald C.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Palazzo, Amanda
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Gray I
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Ingersoll C
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Robertson, Richard D.
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Tokgoz S
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Zhu, T.
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Sulser TB
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Ringler, Claudia
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Msangi S
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You, Liangzhi
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[Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options]
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Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: Scenarios, results, policy options
Agricultural production is sensitive to weather and thus directly affected by climate change. Plausible estimates of these climate change impacts require combined use of climate, crop, and economic models. Results from previous studies vary substantially due to differences in models, scenarios, a...
Nelson, Gerald C.
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Valin, Hugo
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Sands, Ronald D.
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Havlík, Petr
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Ahammad, H.
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Deryng, Delphine
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Elliott J
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Fujimori, Shinichiro
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Hasegawa, Tomoko
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Heyhoe, Edwina
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Kyle, Page
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Lampe M. von
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Lotze-Campen, Hermann
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Meijl, Hans van
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Mensbrugghe, Dominique van der
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Müller, Christoph
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Popp, Alexander
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Robertson, Richard D.
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Robinson, Sherman
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Schmid, Erwin
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Schmitz, Christoph
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Tabeau, Andrzej
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Willenbockel, Dirk
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[Climate change effects on agriculture: economic responses to biophysical shocks]
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Climate change effects on agriculture: economic responses to biophysical shocks
Uncertainty and risk-aversion are notably absent in the modeling of farmers' adoption of climate change mitigation practices in developing countries even though most of the agricultural mitigation practices also have effects on yield variability. The objective of this paper is to explore the impl...
Pinto, Alex de
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Robertson, Richard D.
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Obiri BD
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[Adoption of climate change mitigation practices by risk-averse farmers in the Ashanti Region, Ghana]
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Adoption of climate change mitigation practices by risk-averse farmers in the Ashanti Region, Ghana
This study uses geo-spatial crop modeling to quantify the biophysical impact of weather extremes. More specifically, the study analyzes the weather extreme which affected maize production in the USA in 2012; it also estimates the effect of a similar weather extreme in 2050, using future climate s...
Chung, U.
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Gbegbelegbe, Sika
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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Robertson, Richard D.
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Yun JI
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Tesfaye Fantaye, Kindie
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Hoogenboom, Gerrit
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Sonder, Kai
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[Modeling the effect of a heat wave on maize production in the USA and its implications on food security in the developing world]
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Modeling the effect of a heat wave on maize production in the USA and its implications on food security in the developing world
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the biophysical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change on maize production and food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using adapted improved maize varieties and well-calibrated and validated bioeconomic models. Design/methodology/approach: ...
Tesfaye Fantaye, Kindie
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Gbegbelegbe, Sika
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Cairns, Jill E.
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Shiferaw, Bekele
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Prasanna, Boddupalli
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Sonder, Kai
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Boote, Kenneth J.
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Makumbi, Dan
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Robertson, Richard D.
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[Maize systems under climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: Potential impacts on production and food security]
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Maize systems under climate change in sub-Saharan Africa: Potential impacts on production and food security
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
Assessments of climate change impacts on agricultural markets and land-use patterns rely on quantification of climate change impacts on the spatial patterns of land productivity. We supply a set of climate impact scenarios on agricultural land productivity derived from two climate models and two ...
Müller, Christoph
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Robertson, Richard D.
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[Projecting future crop productivity for global economic modeling]
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Projecting future crop productivity for global economic modeling
The first decade of the 21st century has brought harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food-price spike of 2008 led to food riots and political change in several countries. In 2010, the excessive heat and drought in Russia that led to wildfires and a grain embargo, as well...
Nelson, Gerald C.
,
Rosegrant, Mark W.
,
Palazzo, Amanda
,
Gray I
,
Ingersoll C
,
Robertson, Richard D.
,
Tokgoz S
,
Zhu, T.
,
Sulser TB
,
Ringler, Claudia
,
Msangi S
,
You, Liangzhi
,
[Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: challenges to 2050 and beyond]
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Food security, farming, and climate change to 2050: challenges to 2050 and beyond