Andy Challinor

Centre member

Andy is based at Leeds university, where he is a lecturer in the Institute for Atmospheric Science of the School of Earth and Environment|. He is Professor of Climate Impacts and programme manager for the MSc Climate System Science. His research focusses principally on using climate modelling and process studies to understand food production and food security, treatments of uncertainty and managing risk, and climate-resilient pathways and adaptation.

Andy is also:

Adaptation theme leader for the CGIAR program on 'climate change, agriculture and food security';
Principal Investigator on NERC EQUIP on 'end-to-end quantification of uncertainty for impacts prediction';
Research Director for the Africa College Partnership;
PI on measuring, predicting and adapting to aflatoxin risk under climate variability and change.
Background

Andy's previous roles include being on the expert panel for Scoping Study on the Analysis, Propagation and Communication of Probability, Uncertainty and Risk (2009-2010); The UK Poverty and Adaptation Seminar Series Network (2008-2009); and The International Society for Agricultural Meteorology working group for the re-writing of the WMO/CAgM Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices (2005-2006).

Andy has written many research papers, reviewed papers for a range of journals, and also reviewed research proposals for the NSF, DEFRA, The Danish International Development Agency and the Research Council of Norway. He was an adviser on, and cited in, 'The Rough Guide to Climate Change', published by Rough Guides.

Andy was a 'Science of Risk' runner up in the LLoyds Research Prize, in the category of 'Climate Change'.

Andy received a BSc Physics (European) Honours Class from the University of Leeds, and has a PhD in Meteorology and Forest Micro-Climate, also from the University of Leeds.

Research interests
- Climate modelling and processes;
- Food production and food security;
- Treatments of uncertainty and managing risk;
- Climate-resilient pathways;
- Adaptation.

Research articles

2012

Simelton, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Challinor, A.J., Dougill, A.J., Forster, P.M, et al. Online first - forthcoming. The socioeconomics of food crop production and climate change vulnerability: a global scale quantitative analysis of how grain crops are sensitive to drought. Food Security. External link to full details|

2011

Challinor, A. May 2011. Agriculture: forecasting food. Nature climate change, v.1, pp.103-104. External link to full article|

Jarvis, A., Lau, C., Cook. S., Wollenberg, E., Hansen, J., Bonilla, O., and Challinor, A. April 2011. An integrated adaptation and mitigation framework for developing agricultural research: synergies and trade-offs. Experimental Agriculture, v.47, pp.185-203. External link to full article|

2010

Simelton, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Termansen, M., Benton, T.G., Gosling, S.N., South, A., Arnell, N.W., Challinor, A.J., Dougill, A.J., and Forster, P.M. August 2010. Climate change and the socioeconomics of global food production: a quantitative analysis of how socioeconomic factors influence the vulnerability of grain crops to drought. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP), London, UK. Download PDF of paper| (468KB)

2009

Challinor, A, Osborne, T., Morse, A., Shaffrey, L., Wheeler, T., Weller, H., and Vidale, P.L. June 2009. Methods and resources for climate impacts research: achieving synergy. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v.90, pp.836-848. External link to full article|

Challinor, A. June 2009. Towards the development of adaptation options using climate and crop yield forecasting at seasonal to multi-decadal timescales. Environmental Science and Policy, v.12, pp.453-465. External link to full article|

Challinor, A., Wheeler, T., Hemming, D., and Upadhyaya, H.D. January 2009. Ensemble yield simulations: crop and climate uncertainties, sensitivity to temperature and genotypic adaptation to climate change. Climate Research, v.38, pp.117-127. External link to full article|

2008

Challinor, A., and Wheeler, T.R. June 2008. Use of a crop model ensemble to quantify CO2 stimulation of water-stressed and well-watered crops. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, v.148, pp.1062-1077. External link to full article|

Challinor, A., and Wheeler, T.R. March 2008. Crop yield reduction in the tropics under climate change: processes and uncertainties. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, v.148, pp.343-356. External link to full article|