Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: a quantitative growth theoretic perspective
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Topic: Agriculture and food security
10 things you need to know about the global food system
The Guardian, 1 May
Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change
Elliott J., Deryng, D., Müller, C., et al. (2014). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(9), pp.3239–3244.
Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures
This study applies the global crop model PEGASUS to quantify, for the first time at the global scale, impacts of extreme heat stress on maize, spring wheat and soybean yields resulting from 72 climate change scenarios for the 21st century. read more »
Are more food protests around the corner?
CNN World,13 March
Pollinator declines: Avoid pitfalls of consensus methods
Bateman, I., Agarwala, M., and T. Badura. (2014). Nature, 505(7482), 160-160.
Farmer participation in the equitable payments for watershed services in Morogoro, Tanzania.
Emmanuel J. Kwayu, Susannah M. Sallu, Jouni Paavola.(2014). Ecosystem Services.
Agricultural policy and food security in the whirlpool of the financial crisis
Feist, M. and Fuchs, D. 2013. Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik [Journal of Foreign and Security Policy] 6 (special issue 5), pp. 197–209.
Assessing agricultural risks of climate change in the 21st century in a global gridded crop model intercomparison
Rosenzweig, C., Elliott, J., Deryng, D., et al. (2014). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(9), pp.3268–3273.
Determinants of household vulnerability to food insecurity: A case study of semi-arid districts in Malawi.
Kakota T., Nyariki D., Mkwambisi D. and Kogi-Makau W. (2013). Journal of International Development (JID). Doi:10.1002/jid.2958