Food & land
Food and land: farming, crops, soils, land use and what the land yields.
data sources
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Global 10 km map of observed and projected change in attainable crop yields under climate change, from a team at IAE-CSIC and the Barcelona School of Economics, expressed as the number of people each grid cell could feed.
tools
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DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer) simulates crop growth, development and yield from daily weather, soil and management data, with models for over 45 crops; free to download.
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Earth Genome's hosted search tool for satellite imagery; a user labels a few known sites and it finds similar places anywhere on Earth, for detecting mines, cattle facilities, airstrips and other land change.
Food & land closed source
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Global Change Analysis Model from the Joint Global Change Research Institute; links energy, water, agriculture and land, the economy and climate in long-run global scenarios.
Food & land open sourceopen participation
Open-source suite of ecosystem-service models from the Natural Capital Alliance at Stanford; maps and values what nature provides in terrestrial, freshwater, marine, coastal and urban settings.
Food & land open sourceopen dataopen participation
Part of Google Earth AI; given a user's local outcome data such as disease rates or crop yields, it picks relevant population and satellite signals and trains models for spatial prediction, downscaling and forecasting.
People & societyFood & land closed sourceAPI
questions
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If land changes use, farm to housing, forest to pasture, floodplain to park, what happens to water, habitat, carbon and food?
articles
- Multi-breadbasket failures, climate change, and risks for crop prices and regional consumption article draft
Paper by Kilian Kuhla and colleagues at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Environmental Research Letters; drives Agrimate, an agent-based model of global grain trade, with scenarios of simultaneous crop failures to estimate price spikes and regional consumption loss.
Recent reports, from a creek in Kentucky to the Strait of Hormuz, each read for the question someone there would put to a model of their place, and the kind of model that would answer it.
organizations
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Argentine network of rural organizations, technicians and researchers, grown out of Cooperativa Ayllu, CEFIC and reGOSH in Mendoza, that builds open-hardware instruments and a soil-data web app so farmers can track soil health through agroecological transitions.
books
The 1972 Club of Rome report by Meadows, Meadows, Randers and Behrens that used the World3 system-dynamics model to ask whether exponential growth in population and industry could continue on a finite planet.
Jay Forrester's 1971 system-dynamics model of the world as one system of population, capital, food, resources and pollution; the model behind The Limits to Growth.
Symbol: "farm crops" by Made, Noun Project, CC BY 3.0.