Food security, crop yields, and climate change
What are the risks that climate change poses to regional and global food production? And what are the specific adaptations that should be pursued to reduce the risk of impacts from imminent climate changes?
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Identifying constraints to regional crop yields
Yields in farmers' fields vary widely, with average yields in a region consistently 30% or more below those achieved on some fields.
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Environmental consequences of food and biofuel production
The major systems of the Earth - water, energy, food, climate, carbon, nitrogen, etc. – are tightly interconnected.
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Jan 29, 2012
Extreme heat hurts wheat yields as world warms: study
Reuters and Lobell on Lobell-led study recently published in the journal of Nature Climate Change.
Jan 29, 2012
Heat Peaks
Article refers to research published in Nature Climate Change with lead author David Lobell on the effects of global warming on wheat crop yields.
Jan 29, 2012
Wheat will age prematurely in a warmer world
Wheat turned brown earlier when average temperatures were higher, according to Lobell's data.
Recent Publications
- Lobell, D. and Field, C., 2012. California perennial crops in a changing climate. Climatic Change, 109: 317-333.
- Maltais-Landry, G. and Lobell, D.B., 2012. Evaluating the Contribution of Weather to Maize and Wheat Yield Trends in 12 US Counties. Agronomy journal, 104(2): 301.
- Pongratz, J., Lobell, D.B., Cao, L. and Caldeira, K., 2012. Crop yields in a geoengineered climate. Nature Clim. Change, 2(2): 101-105.
- Urban, D., M.J. Roberts, W.S. Schlenker, and D.B. Lobell. Projected temperature changes indicate significant increase in interannual variability of U.S. maize yields. Climate Change, in review.
- Ahmed, S.A. et al., 2011. Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability in Tanzania. Global Environmental Change, 21(1): 46-55.
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