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Climate change and the socioeconomics of global food production: A quantitative analysis of how socioeconomic factors influence the vulnerability of grain crops to drought

Abstract from Working Paper No. 29 The impact of climate change on agriculture depends on the environmental and socio-economic contexts in which the changes occur. However, current tools to anticipate climate change impacts focus almost entirely on biological and environmental processes. For example, most large-scale crop models can identify where yields are sensitive to new […]

A stated preference investigation into the Chinese demand for farmed vs. wild bear bile

Farming of animals and plants has recently been considered not merely as a more efficient and plentiful supply of their products but also as a means of protecting wild … read more »

Simulating the effects of climate and land management practices on global crop yield

Deryng, D., Sacks, W., Ramankutty, N., et al. (2011). Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 25(2).

Agriculture: forecasting food

Challinor, A. May 2011. Nature climate change, v.1, pp.103-104.

Assessing relevant climate data for agricultural applications.

Ramirez-Villegas, J., and Challinor, A.J. August 2012. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, v.161, pp.26–45.

Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data

Abstract of Working Paper 55 This study evaluates new multi-scale, multi-indicator methods for assessing the vulnerability of crop production to drought at a national and regional scale by identifying differences across and within ten regions of Ghana, a country that faces many climate and crop production challenges typical of sub-Saharan Africa. The paper highlights key […]

The psychology of food riots: when do price spikes lead to arrest?

Foreign Affairs, 30 January

Optimal harvesting of fish stocks under a time-varying discount rate

Optimal control theory has been extensively used to determine the optimal harvesting policy for renewable resources such as fish stocks. In such optimisations, it is common to maximise the … read more »

Climate change, agriculture and food security: a global partnership to link research and action for low-income agricultural producers and consumers.

Vermeulen, S., Zougmore, R., Wollenberg, E., Thornton, P., Nelson, G., Kristjanson, P., Kinyangi, J., Jarvis, A., Hansen, J., Challinor, A.J., Campbell, B., and Aggarwal, P.K. February 2012. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, v.4, pp.128-133.

Appropriate climate change solutions: towards sustainable bioenergy agro-production in Africa for energy equality and poverty alleviation

Duvenage, I., Taplin, R., and Stringer, L.C. International Journal of Climate Change, v.2, pp.101-114.