Chairs: Navin Ramankutty, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Pedram Rowhani, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom and Toshichika Iizumi, NIAES National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Primary Conveners: Pedram Rowhani, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom
Co-conveners: Navin Ramankutty, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Toshichika Iizumi, NIAES, Tsukuba, Japan
OSPA Liaisons: Pedram Rowhani, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom
Soil Modification by Native Shrubs Boosts Crop Productivity in Sudano-Sahelian Agroforestry System
Nathaniel Alexander Bogie1, Roger Bayala2, Ibrahima Diedhiou2, Teamrat A Ghezzehei3 and Richard Dick4, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)University of Thies, Thies, Senegal, (3)Univ. of California, Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (4)The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Columbus, OH, United States
The Influence of Weather Extremes on Historical Crop Production
Navin Ramankutty, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Corey Lesk, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Pedram Rowhani, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1, United Kingdom
Agriculture Insurance: Adaptation to Vulnerability of Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia
I Gusti Agung Ayu Ambarawati1, Chiharu Hongo2, A.A. Ayu Mirah Adi3 and Eisaku Tamura2, (1)Udayana University, Faculty of Agriculture, Denpasar, Indonesia, (2)Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, (3)Udayana University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Denpasar, Indonesia
Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures
Delphine Deryng1, Declan Conway2, Navin Ramankutty3, Jeff Price1 and Rachel Warren4, (1)Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Norwich, United Kingdom, (2)London School of Economics, London, WC2A, United Kingdom, (3)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Quantifying Livestock Heat Stress Impacts in the Sahel
Daniel Broman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Thomas M Hopson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY IN THE GROWING SEASON: A U2U DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR CENTRAL UNITED STATES CORN PRODUCERS BASED ON CORN GROWING DEGREE DAYS
James Randal Angel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Dennis Todey, South Dakota State University, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Brookings, SD, United States, Ray Massey, University of Missouri Columbia, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Columbia, MO, United States, Melissa Widhalm, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Larry L. Biehl, Purdue University, Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), West Lafayette, IN, United States and Jeff Andresen, Michigan State University, Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States