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Webinar Today (19 April): “Global Crop Modeling and Climate-related Implications for Future Food Productivity with Dr. Jonas Jaegermeyr"
The Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign will be hosting the webinar: “Global Crop Modeling and Climate-related Implications for Future Food Productivity with Dr. Jonas Jaegermeyr: Highlighting the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region. Focus: GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region,” on Tuesday, 19 April, 01:00 p.m. EDT (05:00 p.m. UTC).
During the webinar, Dr. Jaegermeyr (Research Scientist, Columbia University Climate School and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, USA), will introduce AgMIP, the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project, and present the latest estimates of potential climate change impacts on future crop productivity.
AgMIP brings together the leading international crop modeling teams and provides a key assessment framework for improving our understanding of climate change implications for global agriculture and for developing adaptation and mitigation pathways to provide a healthy and sustainable diet for all.
This presentation will highlight recent work from the global crop modeling community and introduces a new metric — time of climate impact emergence — that looks at future climate-related challenges from a risk perspective. The research extends its focus to how average global crop yields for maize, or corn, may see a decrease of 24 percent by late century, if current climate change trends continue. Wheat, in contrast, may see an uptick in crop yields by about 17 percent. The change in yields is due to the projected increases in temperature, shifts in rainfall patterns, and elevated surface carbon dioxide concentrations due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, making it more difficult to grow maize in the tropics and expanding wheat’s growing range.
During the webinar, Dr. Jaegermeyr will highlight some of these trends seen in the Near East and North Africa Region. The webinar will also feature Part I of an interview with Salma Al Zubi from GLOBE Jordan and the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Regional Coordination Office. The campaign team will also highlight tree height, land cover, and land use in the GLOBE Near East and North Africa Region.
If you are interested in joining the webinar, please send an email to Campaign Lead, Brian Campbell. To learn more about the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, click here.
News origin: GLOBE Implementation Office