An article by Pardee Center Director Anthony Janetos that was published recently by The Conversation has been picked up by media outlets and websites around the world. Originally appearing in The Conversation on June 4, the article is about research conducted by Prof. Janetos and Pardee Center Post-Doctoral Associate John Connors that uses models to […]
Prof. Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently participated in a day-long meeting on multiple breadbasket failure sponsored by the University of Wisconsin, the U.S. Geospatial Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service. The meeting was held at the USDA’s […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce the publication of a new Research Report, “The Risks of Multiple Breadbasket Failures in the 21st Century: A Science Research Agenda.” According to the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (Statistics Division 2016), a relatively small area of the world, 23 […]
Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, helped convene and participated in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs’ Global Food Plus Conference at Harvard University on February 24, 2017. The conference featured 24 “speed talk” presentations on the nexus of food, agriculture, environment, health, and […]
John Patrick Connors, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently co-authored a paper titled “Identifying attributes of food system sustainability: emerging themes and consensus” published in the journal Agriculture and Human Values. In the paper, the authors identify five attributes of food system sustainability – diversity, […]
Post-doctoral associate John Patrick Connors and Anthony Janetos, the Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently attended the 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco, the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world. Connors presented their paper titled “Assessing the Impacts of Multiple Breadbasket […]
Laurence L. Delina and John Patrick Connors, two postdoctoral associates at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), held in San Francisco from March 29 to April 2. Delina presented a paper titled “Producing energy futures in […]
Irene Monasterolo, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, traveled to Italy to present her research at two recent conferences. On September 17, she presented a paper titled ‘Modelling fiscal and monetary policy strategies for fostering green investments: a system dynamics model with heterogeneous agents’ at the 27th Annual Conference […]
Click here to download the PDF. In this Issues in Brief, 2014 Pardee Graduate Summer Fellow Laurie Wissler explores the challenges faced by smallholder palm oil farmers, particularly in Southeast Asia. Smallholders operating less than 50 hectares of land produce about one-third of the global palm oil supply, but their livelihoods are threatened by land conflicts, market […]