Search Results - "Nelson, Gerald C."

future of food demand: understanding differences in global economic models by Valin, Hugo, Sands, Ronald D, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Nelson, Gerald C, Ahammad, Helal, Blanc, Elodie, Bodirsky, Benjamin, Fujimori, Shinichiro, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Havlik, Petr, Heyhoe, Edwina, Kyle, Page, Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, Paltsev, Sergey, Rolinski, Susanne, Tabeau, Andrzej, van Meijl, Hans, von Lampe, Martin, Willenbockel, Dirk

“…Understanding the capacity of agricultural systems to feed the world population under climate change requires projecting future food demand. This article…”
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Modeling impacts of faster productivity growth to inform the CGIAR initiative on Crops to End Hunger by Wiebe, Keith, Sulser, Timothy B, Dunston, Shahnila, Rosegrant, Mark W, Fuglie, Keith, Willenbockel, Dirk, Nelson, Gerald C

“…In 2017-2018, a group of international development funding agencies launched the Crops to End Hunger initiative to modernize public plant breeding in…”
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A global dataset for the projected impacts of climate change on four major crops by Hasegawa, Toshihiro, Wakatsuki, Hitomi, Ju, Hui, Vyas, Shalika, Nelson, Gerald C., Farrell, Aidan, Deryng, Delphine, Meza, Francisco, Makowski, David

“…Reliable estimates of the impacts of climate change on crop production are critical for assessing the sustainability of food systems. Global, regional, and…”
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Land-use change trajectories up to 2050: insights from a global agro-economic model comparison by Schmitz, Christoph, van Meijl, Hans, Kyle, Page, Nelson, Gerald C, Fujimori, Shinichiro, Gurgel, Angelo, Havlik, Petr, Heyhoe, Edwina, Mason d’Croz, Daniel, Popp, Alexander, Sands, Ron, Tabeau, Andrzej, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, von Lampe, Martin, Wise, Marshall, Blanc, Elodie, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Kavallari, Aikaterini, Valin, Hugo

“…Changes in agricultural land use have important implications for environmental services. Previous studies of agricultural land-use futures have been published…”
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Evidence for and projection of multi-breadbasket failure caused by climate change by Hasegawa, Toshihiro, Wakatsuki, Hitomi, Nelson, Gerald C

“…Simultaneous crop failures in multiple major producing regions (breadbaskets) threaten both local and global food security. Evidence of their frequency and…”
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Land Use Change with Spatially Explicit Data: A Dynamic Approach by De Pinto, Alessandro, Nelson, Gerald C

“…Most of the economic literature that uses spatially-explicit data to estimate the determinants of land-use change is limited to static models and…”
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Global reductions in manual agricultural work capacity due to climate change by Nelson, Gerald C., Vanos, Jennifer, Havenith, George, Jay, Ollie, Ebi, Kristie L., Hijmans, Robert J.

“…Manual outdoor work is essential in many agricultural systems. Climate change will make such work more stressful in many regions due to heat exposure. The…”
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Climate change effects on agriculture: Economic responses to biophysical shocks by Nelson, Gerald C, Valin, Hugo, Sands, Ronald D, Havlik, Petr, Ahammad, Helal, Deryng, Delphine, Elliott, Joshua, Fujimori, Shinichiro, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Heyhoe, Edwina, Kyle, Page, Von Lampe, Martin, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Mason d’Croz, Daniel, van Meijl, Hans, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Müller, Christoph, Popp, Alexander, Robertson, Richard, Robinson, Sherman, Schmid, Erwin, Tabeau, Andrzej, Willenbockel, Dirk

“…Agricultural production is sensitive to weather and thus directly affected by climate change. Plausible estimates of these climate change impacts require…”
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Adaptation to climate change and limits in food production systems: Physics, the chemistry of biology, and human behavior by Nelson, Gerald C., Cheung, William W. L., Bezner Kerr, Rachel, Franke, James, Meza, Francisco, Oyinlola, Muhammed A., Thornton, Philip, Zabel, Florian

“…Are there limits to our ability to adapt food systems to climate change? This overview paper for the special issue highlights results of research on potential…”
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Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops by Wakatsuki, Hitomi, Ju, Hui, Nelson, Gerald C, Farrell, Aidan D, Deryng, Delphine, Meza, Francisco, Hasegawa, Toshihiro

“…Crop adaptation to climate change is critical for ensuring food security. We systematically reviewed the projected impacts of climate change and adaptation…”
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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures by Ye, Liming, Tang, Huajun, Wu, Wenbin, Yang, Peng, Nelson, Gerald C, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Palazzo, Amanda

“…Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield,…”
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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future by Kiselev, Sergey, Romashkin, Roman, Nelson, Gerald C, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Palazzo, Amanda

“…Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to positively affect Russian agriculture. In high…”
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Simulating a relative environmental effect of glyphosate-resistant soybeans by Nelson, Gerald C., Bullock, David S.

“…Great controversy surrounds the potential environmental effects of genetically modified crops (GMOs). Of the GM crops currently in commercial use,…”
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Do roads cause deforestation? Using satellite images in econometric analysis of land use by Nelson, Gerald C., Hellerstein, Daniel

“…In this paper we demonstrate how satellite images and other geographic data can be used to predict land use. A cross-section model of land use is estimated…”
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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures by Dube, Sikhalazo, Scholes, Robert J, Nelson, Gerald C, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Palazzo, Amanda

“…The projected changes in planted area, yield per area, net exports/imports and prices for five major agricultural crops in South Africa were simulated using…”
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Investigating the predictive capabilities of discrete choice models in the presence of spatial effects by Robertson, Richard D., Nelson, Gerald C., De Pinto, Alessandro

“…Fully spatial treatments of discrete choice models are difficult to specify and can be computationally intense. Several ad hoc procedures have been proposed in…”
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US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures by Takle, Eugene S, Gustafson, David, Beachy, Roger, Neslon, Gerald C, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Palazzo, Amanda

“…Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of…”
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Untangling the Environmentalist's Paradox: Better Data, Better Accounting, and Better Technology will Help by Nelson, Gerald C

“…In a series of publications, Ester Boserup argued that human development is essentially a sequence of repeated steps of developing institutions to convert…”
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Why do global long-term scenarios for agriculture differ? An overview of the AgMIP Global Economic Model Intercomparison by von Lampe, Martin, Willenbockel, Dirk, Ahammad, Helal, Blanc, Elodie, Cai, Yongxia, Calvin, Katherine, Fujimori, Shinichiro, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Havlik, Petr, Heyhoe, Edwina, Kyle, Page, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, Mason d’Croz, Daniel, Nelson, Gerald C, Sands, Ronald D, Schmitz, Christoph, Tabeau, Andrzej, Valin, Hugo, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, van Meijl, Hans

“…Recent studies assessing plausible futures for agricultural markets and global food security have had contradictory outcomes. To advance our understanding of…”
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Agriculture and climate change in global scenarios: why don’t the models agree by Nelson, Gerald C, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Ahammad, Helal, Blanc, Elodie, Calvin, Katherine, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Havlik, Petr, Heyhoe, Edwina, Kyle, Page, Lotze-Campen, Hermann, von Lampe, Martin, Mason d’Croz, Daniel, van Meijl, Hans, Muller, Christoph, Reilly, John, Robertson, Richard, Sands, Ronald D, Tabeau, Andrzej, Takahashi, Kiyoshi, Valin, Hugo, Willenbockel, Dirk

“…Agriculture is unique among economic sectors in the nature of impacts from climate change. The production activity that transforms inputs into agricultural…”
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