Nearly all models used to predict climate changes either ignore agriculture altogether or assume that farmers behave the same way through time. In reality, farmers are changing rapidly in response to new technologies, growth in demand and other factors. This study suggests that these changes may have important cooling effects, especially at local scales.
David Lobell
Related These technologies are interesting in the same way that a shoe can also be a hammer. There are incid... GEOFFREY NUNBERG You will kill our farmers when you lend to them at 26% per annum SOTONYE ANGA i asked her why did you change? i am just like you she replied... SHIVANGI LAVANIYA The next generation of Millionaires and Billionaires in Nigeria will be farmers and Agribusiness peo... SOTONYE ANGA The species have gotten limited areas to live in because of changes in climate and changes of habita... LENNIE ROBERTS Isn't it funny that day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. C.S. LEWIS Our study indicates that in addition to being responsible for some of the year-to-year changes in Ea... JULIA COLE Our study indicates that in addition to being responsible for some of the year-to-year changes in Ea... JULIA COLE Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energ... 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ALFRED BLUMSTEIN With research completed, North Carolina is poised to lead the nation in sustainable hog production. ... DAN WHITTLE I see that it has huge benefits for us understanding how and why diversity changes over time and how... LAURIE ANDERSON He shook his head in disbelief. He would cook and take her to his place. He was about to break two o... MARCIA WEBER MARTINS People, don't just seat there and wait. Sometimes you gotta change your daily routine if you're real... SEAN DAVZ You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in bot... NICOLA YOON Agricultural regions are some of the key areas where we would like to understand and predict climate... DAVID LOBELL In the end, the cost of this study may be insignificant to the increase in revenue that the rate cha... GLENN THOMAS I think it's reasonable to assume that these factors are not independent. It's important to understa... 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UWE ANDERSEN It's an important symbol that the easterners have come to power, ... They have a more pragmatic way ... UWE ANDERSEN It's an important symbol that the Easterners have come to power, ... They have a more pragmatic way ... UWE ANDERSEN When you you see no positive change take care of a negative change. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE JR Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person’s latent fears constantly whisper war... KILROY J. OLDSTER The farmer in us makes us do the things we do SOTONYE ANGA All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to dist... NIKOLA TESLA Our study provides insight into how chronic stress triggers changes in the brain that are much more ... ERIC NESTLER I think we can extend MILC and do reconciliation in a way that has little or no impact on other impo... NORM COLEMAN I think we can extend MILC and do reconciliation in a way that has little or no impact on other impo... NORM COLEMAN [Farmers, even those outside the disaster zone, are begging for hurricane cash.] It is important to ... BOB STALLMAN Virtually all of the rating changes at the higher end of the rating scale have been accompanied by o... MICHAEL KAPLAN A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changi... NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI This paper is important because it is the first study in humans that strongly suggests that calorie ... DR. LUIGI FONTANA In several cases, I'm convinced the financial and personal help these producers have received from o... RONNIE ANDERSON Clearly, there have been changes in the climate. KAREN HANDEL This is a great way to support our Greene County farmers and at the same time, Greene County residen... BARBARA WISE Last spring we saw a lot of legislative actions aimed at limiting farmers' ability to use agricultur... MARTIN BARBRE We know that species move their ranges when climate changes. We have to begin to look at if our prot... LEE HANNAH She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which ... JANE AUSTEN It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you ... That's how we make changes i... CAMERON DIAZ For us to have food on our table, farmers must remain in business and continue to grow our food SOTONYE ANGA [Clark said he reviewed local data on black farmers and USDA lending patterns by race, and figured o... CHARLES CARTER People have used models to study permafrost before, but not within a fully interactive climate syste... DAVID LAWRENCE Our farmers need help to recover from their economic losses and begin to replant for next season, ..... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE The observation that money changes induce output changes in the same direction receives confirmation... ROBERT LUCAS, JR. Our study is the first one of its kind because we followed the same people over time, looking at cha... DR. KATHLEEN MULLAN HARRIS Scientists have known that hurricanes form above the world's warmest ocean surface waters. This stud... JAY FEIN We need young farmers to buy land, enter the business and stay in our rural communities to raise the... STEVE KING The changes we're announcing give us a management and organizational structure that is aligned to im... BRIAN FERGUSON Proposition 76 makes major changes to California's constitution, ... These changes would have substa... ELIZABETH HILL The data gathered on this and other SCICEX missions are uncovering important clues about the circula... RITA COLWELL The economy of the state has changed dramatically. The changing face of agriculture drove out farmer... RICHARD RATHGE We sure would like to. I believe in supporting our local farmers. LYN HALVORSON ...The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day�... PATRICIA BRIGGS There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and vari... MIYAMOTO MUSASHI We do not see the faces of our farmers, but we see and eat the food they produce which makes us food... SOTONYE ANGA We hope that everyone involved will understand that this change is being made in response to the cri... GIL CATES Farmers have lost control of that food as it's going through the chain. And maybe it's about time th... CRAIG HILL All constructive changes in life begin with an explicit choice to either start doing something new o... GLENN A. MALTAIS These changes are not targeted at changing the hearts and minds of the Darwin fundamentalists, JOHN CALVERT There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap SOTONYE ANGA Brazilians are very quick to adapt to new technology ... . We came here in response to demand from o... GEOFFREY PRENTICE Growth involves changing but most times we are too busy to incorporate the necessary changes that wi... SUNDAY ADELAJA Preliminary evidence suggests that these compounds may have some biological activity in slowing the ... STEVEN SCHWARTZ It's important to farmers because we will be looking at what can be done to have that balance betwee... ERIC LARSON It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make ch... CAMERON DIAZ We're able to actually visualize what the changes are that are happening in the brain and how the br... DR. SANJIV KUMRA Changes are impossible without God either in your life or in the country SUNDAY ADELAJA Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used t... RENE REDZEPI The changes just simply continue and so its just different kinds of technologies in the last four to... ALAN MAY The behavior of the glaciers that dump ice into the sea is the most important aspect of understandin... ERIC RIGNOT The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that... ARTHUR CAPPER The purpose of this meeting is to request participation and invite comments from a broad range of lo... TOM HOLT The image this study gives our stadiums in Germany or abroad does not correspond at all to reality: ... HORST SCHMIDT I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable ... BILL GATES Coke might have to resolve this issue through additional compensation to the bottlers or other struc... BILL PECORIELLO There have been important changes in the telecom industry in the last two years and it is not realis... CARLOS CRUZ There have been important changes in the telecom industry in the last two years and it is not realis... CARLOS CRUZ
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