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PUBLICATION | 2020

COVID-19 and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: implications of lockdown during agricultural planting seasons

COVID-19 pandemic movement restrictions as part of the control measures put in place by countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has implications on food security, as movement restrictions coincided...

PUBLICATION | 2020

Summary of climate variability and extremes and their main impacts on agricultural production in 2019

This yearly summary reviews the main climate extremes described by the WMO state of the climate preliminary report for 2019 that had an impact on agricultural production according to JRC’s agricultural...

PUBLICATION | 2020

COVID-19 risks to global food security

As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, trade-offs have emerged between the need to contain the virus and to avoid disastrous economic and food security crises that hurt the world's poor and hungry...

PUBLICATION | 2020

Integrating multiple land cover maps through a multi-criteria analysis to improve agricultural monitoring in Africa

Monitoring agricultural land cover is highly relevant for global early warning systems such as ASAP (Anomaly hot Spots of Agricultural Production), because it represents...

PUBLICATION | 2020

The environmental consequences of climate-driven agricultural frontiers

Growing conditions for crops such as coffee and wine grapes are shifting to track climate change. Research on these crop responses has focused principally on impacts...

PUBLICATION | 2020

Small world in the real world: Long distance dispersal governs epidemic dynamics in agricultural landscapes

Outbreaks of a plant disease in a landscape can be meaningfully modelled using networks with nodes representing individual crop-fields, and edges representing potential infection pathways between...

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