Search Results - "Troost, Christian"

The financial value of seasonal forecast-based cultivar choice: Assessing the evidence in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia by Kayamo, Samuel Elias, Troost, Christian, Yismaw, Habtamu, Berger, Thomas

“…Among many other options, seasonal weather forecasts and the use of cultivars that are better adapted to local climate and climate variability have been…”
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Agent‐based Modelling of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Options in Agriculture by Berger, Thomas, Troost, Christian

“…Computer simulation models can provide valuable insights for climate‐related analysis and help streamline policy interventions for improved adaptation and…”
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Dealing with Uncertainty in Agent-Based Simulation: Farm-Level Modeling of Adaptation to Climate Change in Southwest Germany by Troost, Christian, Berger, Thomas

“…Climate change will most likely confront agricultural producers with natural, economic, and political conditions that have not previously been observed and are…”
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Impacts of climate variability and food price volatility on household income and food security of farm households in East and West Africa by Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Berger, Thomas, Haile, Mekbib G., Troost, Christian

“…This paper provides an ex-ante assessment of the impacts of climate and price variability on household income and food security in Ethiopia and Ghana. The…”
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How Bayesian Are Farmers When Making Climate Adaptation Decisions? A Computer Laboratory Experiment for Parameterising Models of Expectation Formation by Eisele, Marius, Troost, Christian, Berger, Thomas

“…As the consequences of climate change for agricultural production slowly unfold at the local level (sometimes with contradicting signals), farmers’ information…”
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Bridging the gap between models and users: A lightweight mobile interface for optimized farming decisions in interactive modeling sessions by Mössinger, Johannes, Troost, Christian, Berger, Thomas

“…Whole-farm mathematical programming (MP) models help to understand the complex implications of farm planning decisions taking the full agricultural system into…”
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Climate, energy and environmental policies in agriculture: Simulating likely farmer responses in Southwest Germany by Troost, Christian, Walter, Teresa, Berger, Thomas

“…•Renewable energy and agri-environmental policies create conflicting incentives for farmers that are analyzed using farm-level models.•The German Renewable…”
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Quantifying the economic importance of irrigation water reuse in a Chilean watershed using an integrated agent-based model by Arnold, R. T., Troost, Christian, Berger, Thomas

“…Irrigation with surface water enables Chilean agricultural producers to generate one of the country's most important economic exports. The Chilean water code…”
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Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models by Huber, Robert, Bakker, Martha, Balmann, Alfons, Berger, Thomas, Bithell, Mike, Brown, Calum, Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne, Xiong, Hang, Le, Quang Bao, Mack, Gabriele, Meyfroidt, Patrick, Millington, James, Müller, Birgit, Polhill, J. Gareth, Sun, Zhanli, Seidl, Roman, Troost, Christian, Finger, Robert

“…The use of agent-based modelling approaches in ex-post and ex-ante evaluations of agricultural policies has been progressively increasing over the last few…”
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Boosting the Scalability of Farm-Level Models: Efficient Surrogate Modeling of Compositional Simulation Output by Troost, Christian, Parussis-Krech, Julia, Mejaíl, Matías, Berger, Thomas

“…Surrogate modeling can overcome computational and data-privacy constraints of micro-scale economic models and support their incorporation into large-scale…”
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Can smallholder farmers adapt to climate variability, and how effective are policy interventions? Agent‐based simulation results for Ethiopia by Berger, Thomas, Troost, Christian, Wossen, Tesfamicheal, Latynskiy, Evgeny, Tesfaye, Kindie, Gbegbelegbe, Sika

“…Climate variability with unexpected droughts and floods causes serious production losses and worsens food security, especially in Sub‐Saharan Africa. This…”
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How to keep it adequate: A protocol for ensuring validity in agent-based simulation by Troost, Christian, Huber, Robert, Bell, Andrew R, van Delden, Hedwig, Filatova, Tatiana, Le, Quang Bao, Lippe, Melvin, Niamir, Leila, Polhill, J. Gareth, Sun, Zhanli, Berger, Thomas

“…There has so far been no shared understanding of validity in agent-based simulation. We here conceptualise validation as systematically substantiating the…”
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Climate-related land use policies in Brazil: How much has been achieved with economic incentives in agriculture? by Carauta, Marcelo, Troost, Christian, Guzman-Bustamante, Ivan, Hampf, Anna, Libera, Affonso, Meurer, Katharina, Bönecke, Eric, Franko, Uwe, Ribeiro Rodrigues, Renato de Aragão, Berger, Thomas

“…Until 2019, the Brazilian federal government employed a number of policy measures to fulfill the pledge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land use…”
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Coupled biophysical and decision-making processes in grassland systems in East African savannahs – A modelling framework by Marohn, Carsten, Troost, Christian, Warth, Benjamin, Bateki, Christian, Zijlstra, Mink, Anwar, Faizan, Williams, Benjamin, Descheemaeker, Katrien, Berger, Thomas, Asch, Folkard, Dickhoefer, Uta, Birner, Regina, Cadisch, Georg

“…•The coupled MPMAS-LUCIA-LIVSIM model framework (MLL) is presented.•Established models have been amended with herd movement and management routines.•MLL…”
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Towards reusable building blocks for agent-based modelling and theory development by Berger, Uta, Bell, Andrew, Barton, C. Michael, Chappin, Emile, Dreßler, Gunnar, Filatova, Tatiana, Fronville, Thibault, Lee, Allen, van Loon, Emiel, Lorscheid, Iris, Meyer, Matthias, Müller, Birgit, Piou, Cyril, Radchuk, Viktoriia, Roxburgh, Nicholas, Schüler, Lennart, Troost, Christian, Wijermans, Nanda, Williams, Tim G., Wimmler, Marie-Christin, Grimm, Volker

“…Despite the increasing use of standards for documenting and testing agent-based models (ABMs) and sharing of open access code, most ABMs are still developed…”
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The biophysical and socio-economic dimension of yield gaps in the southern Amazon – A bio-economic modelling approach by Hampf, Anna C., Carauta, Marcelo, Latynskiy, Evgeny, Libera, Affonso A.D., Monteiro, Leonardo, Sentelhas, Paulo, Troost, Christian, Berger, Thomas, Nendel, Claas

“…Farmers in the State of Mato Grosso are among Brazil's most productive soybean, maize and cotton producers, but are still far away from achieving potential…”
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Multi-site, multi-crop measurements in the soil–vegetation–atmosphere continuum: a comprehensive dataset from two climatically contrasting regions in southwestern Germany for the period 2009–2018 by Weber, Tobias K. D, Ingwersen, Joachim, Högy, Petra, Poyda, Arne, Wizemann, Hans-Dieter, Demyan, Michael Scott, Bohm, Kristina, Eshonkulov, Ravshan, Gayler, Sebastian, Kremer, Pascal, Laub, Moritz, Nkwain, Yvonne Funkiun, Troost, Christian, Witte, Irene, Reichenau, Tim, Berger, Thomas, Cadisch, Georg, Müller, Torsten, Fangmeier, Andreas, Wulfmeyer, Volker, Streck, Thilo

“…We present a comprehensive, high-quality dataset characterizing soil–vegetation and land surface processes from continuous measurements conducted in two…”
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