selected publications
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article
- Climate-mediated dynamics of the northern limit of paddy rice in China. Environmental Research Letters. 16. 2021
- Integrating coarse-resolution images and agricultural statistics to generate sub-pixel crop type maps and reconciled area estimates. Remote Sensing of Environment. 258. 2021
- Mapping development potential of dry-season small-scale irrigation in Sub-Saharan African countries under joint biophysical and economic constraints - An agent-based modeling approach with an application to Ethiopia. Agricultural Systems. 186:102987. 2021
- WITHIN-SEASON PRODUCER RESPONSE TO WARMER TEMPERATURES: DEFENSIVE INVESTMENTS BY KENYAN FARMERS. ECONOMIC JOURNAL. 131:392-419. 2021
- Assessing long-term spatial movement of wheat area across China. Agricultural Systems. 185:102933. 2020
- Improving potential of nitrogen linked gray water footprint in China’s intensive cropping systems. Journal of Cleaner Production. 269:122307. 2020
- A cultivated planet in 2010 – Part 1: The global synergy cropland map. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA. 12:1-1928. 2020
- Does the Granary County Subsidy Program Lead to manipulation of grain production data in China. China Economic Review. 62:101347. 2020
- South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing’s groundwater levels. Nature Communications. 11:1-10. 2020
- Evaluating satellite-based evapotranspiration estimates for hydrological applications in data-scarce regions: A case in Ethiopia.. Science of The Total Environment. 743:140702. 2020
- The role of climate in the trend and variability of Ethiopia's cereal crop yields.. Science of The Total Environment. 723:137893. 2020
- Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures: Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers. The Economic Journal. 2020
- A cultivated planet in 2010: 2. the global gridded agriculturalproduction maps. Earth System Science Data Discussions. 1-40. 2020
- Estimating and understanding crop yields with explainable deep learning in the Indian Wheat Belt. Environmental Research Letters. 15:24019. 2020
- Evaluation of a UAV-mounted consumer grade camera with different spectral modifications and two handheld spectral sensors for rapeseed growth monitoring: performance and influencing factors. Precision Agriculture. 21:1-1120. 2020
- Integrating climate prediction and regionalization into an agro-economic model to guide agricultural planning. Climatic Change. 158:435-451. 2020
- A Macro Perspective on the Relationship between Farm Size and Agrochemicals Use in China. Sustainability. 12. 2020
- A cultivated planet in 2010-Part 2: The global gridded agricultural-production maps. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA. 12:3545-3572. 2020
- Spatial autocorrelation panel regression: agricultural production and transport connectivity. Networks and Spatial Economics. 20:1-24. 2020
- The Ability of Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence From OCO-2 and MODIS-EVI to Monitor Spatial Variations of Soybean and Maize Yields in the Midwestern USA. Remote Sensing. 12. 2020
- Uptake of insurance-embedded credit in presence of credit rationing: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Kenya. Agricultural Finance Review. 80:745-766. 2020
- Integrating satellite and climate data to predict wheat yield in Australia using machine learning approaches. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 274:144-159. 2019
- Synchronous crop failures and climate-forced production variability.. Science Advances. 5. 2019
- Design and rating of risk-contingent credit for balancing business and financial risks for Kenyan farmers. Applied Economics. 51:5447-5465. 2019
- Rice production and climate change in Northeast China: evidence of adaptation through land use shifts. Environmental Research Letters. 14:24014. 2019
- A comparison of global agricultural monitoring systems and current gaps. Agricultural Systems. 168:258-272. 2019
- Drought Trend Analysis Based on the Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index Using NASA's Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections, High Spatial Resolution Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 Projections, and Assessment of Potential Impacts on China's Crop Yield in the 21st Century. Water. 11. 2019
- Heatwave Trends and the Population Exposure Over China in the 21st Century as Well as Under 1.5 degrees C and 2.0 degrees C Global Warmer Future Scenarios. Sustainability. 11. 2019
- Spatiotemporal changes of cropping structure in China during 1980–2011. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 28:1659-1671. 2018
- Water for Food: Enhancing Food Security in the Developing World Through Improved Agricultural Water Management I Posters 2018
- Integrating satellite and climate data to predict wheat yield in Australia using machine learning approaches 2018
- Remoteness, urbanization, and child nutrition in sub‐Saharan Africa. Agricultural Economics. 49:765-775. 2018
- Spatially-explicit effects of seed and fertilizer intensification for maize in Tanzania. Land Use Policy. 78:158-165. 2018
- Can Sub-Saharan Africa feed itself? The role of irrigation development in the region’s drylands for food security. Water International. 43:796-814. 2018
- Increasing concentration of major crops in China from 1980 to 2011. EconStor Open Access Articles. 13:480-493. 2018
- Synthesis of agricultural land system change in China over the past 40 years. EconStor Open Access Articles. 13:473-479. 2018
- Satellite sun‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence detects early response of winter wheat to heat stress in the Indian Indo‐Gangetic Plains. Global Change Biology. 24:4023-4037. 2018
- Global cropping intensity gaps: Increasing food production without cropland expansion. Land Use Policy. 76:515-525. 2018
- Spatial and temporal changes of vegetable production in China. Journal of Land Use Science. 13:494-507. 2018
- Harvested area gaps in China between 1981 and 2010: Effects of climatic and land management factors. Environmental Research Letters. 13:44006. 2018
- Design and Rating of Risk-Contingent Credit for Balancing Business and Financial Risks for Kenyan Farmers 2018
- Industrial Water Pollution Discharge Taxes in China: A Multi-Sector Dynamic Analysis. Water. 10. 2018
- Marginal abatement cost of agricultural carbon emissions in China: 1993-2015. China Agricultural Economic Review. 10:558-571. 2018
- Rainfall shocks are not necessarily a sensitive early indicator of changes in wasting prevalence.. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 72:177-178. 2018
- Village-level supply reliability of groundwater irrigation in rural China: Effects of climate variables and tubewell density. China Agricultural Economic Review. 10:354-371. 2018
- What Rainfall Does Not Tell Us-Enhancing Financial Instruments with Satellite-Derived Soil Moisture and Evaporative Stress. Remote Sensing. 10. 2018
- Invest in small-scale irrigated agriculture: A national assessment on potential to expand small-scale irrigation in Nigeria. Agricultural Water Management. 193:251-264. 2017
- A Synergy Cropland of China by Fusing Multiple Existing Maps and Statistics. Sensors. 17:1613. 2017
- A global dataset of crowdsourced land cover and land use reference data. Scientific Data. 4:170075. 2017
- Variable Returns to Fertiliser Use and the Geography of Poverty: Experimental and Simulation Evidence from Malawi. Journal of African Economies. 26:342-371. 2017
- Assessing the harvested area gap in China. Agricultural Systems. 153:212-220. 2017
- An Ex-Post Evaluation of Agricultural Extension Programs for Reducing Fertilizer Input in Shaanxi, China. Sustainability. 9. 2017
- Projecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 1. Model description and an equilibrium application over West Africa. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9:354-376. 2017
- Projecting regional climate and cropland changes using a linked biogeophysical-socioeconomic modeling framework: 2. Transient dynamics. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9:377-388. 2017
- CELL5M: A geospatial database of agricultural indicators for Africa South of the Sahara. F1000Research. 5:2490-2490. 2016
- Rice area change in Northeast China and its correlation with climate change.. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology. 27:2571-2579. 2016
- Patterns of Cereal Yield Growth across China from 1980 to 2010 and Their Implications for Food Production and Food Security. PLOS ONE. 11. 2016
- Potential impact of climate and socioeconomic changes on future agricultural land use in West Africa. EARTH SYSTEM DYNAMICS. 7:151-165. 2016
- Spatio-temporal changes in Chinese crop patterns over the past three decades [in Chinese]. Acta Geographica Sinica. 71(5). 2016
- Cropping Intensity Gaps: The Potential for Expanded Global Harvest Areas 2015
- Potential impact of climate change on cereal crop yield in West Africa. Climatic Change. 133:321-334. 2015
- Agriculture production and transport infrastructure in east Africa : an application of spatial autoregression 2015
- Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and South Sudan. Journal of Economic Geography. 15:649-671. 2015
- Mapping global cropland and field size. Global Change Biology. 21:1980-1992. 2015
- Drought and food security - Improving decision-support via new technologies and innovative collaboration. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT. 4:51-55. 2015
- Impacts of Road Expansion on Deforestation and Biological Carbon Loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Environmental and Resource Economics. 60:433-469. 2015
- Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT. 4:37-45. 2015
- An analysis of methodological and spatial differences in global cropping systems models and maps. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24:180-191. 2015
- Bayesian Markov Chain Random Field Cosimulation for Improving Land Cover Classification Accuracy. Mathematical Geosciences. 47:123-148. 2015
- Chinese Rice Production Area Adaptations to Climate Changes, 1949-2010. Environmental Science & Technology. 49:2032-2037. 2015
- Spatial evaluation of crop maps by the spatial production allocation model in China. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 8:1-6. 2014
- Variable Returns to Fertilizer Use and Its Relationship to Poverty: Experimental and Simulation Evidence from Malawi 2014
- Irrigation potential and investment return in Kenya. Food Policy. 47:34-45. 2014
- SPAM in the Clouds 2014
- Interpretation of Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptations by Local Household Farmers: a Case Study at Bin County, Northeast China. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 13:1599-1608. 2014
- Generating global crop distribution maps: From census to grid. Agricultural Systems. 127:53-60. 2014
- Diversification and Development in Pastoralist Ethiopia. World Development. 56:200-213. 2014
- Spatio-temporal dynamics of maize cropping system in Northeast China between 1980 and 2010 by using spatial production allocation model. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 24:397-410. 2014
- A Comparative Analysis of Global Cropping Systems Models and Maps 2014
- Impacts of observed growing-season warming trends since 1980 on crop yields in China. Regional Environmental Change. 14:7-16. 2014
- Estimating the potential for expanding smallholder irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Agricultural Water Management. 131:183-193. 2014
- Exploring Strategic Priorities for Regional Agricultural Research and Development Investments in Southern Africa 2014
- Change analysis of rice area and production in China during the past three decades. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 23:1005-1018. 2013
- Water conservancy projects in China: Achievements, challenges and way forward. Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions. 23:633-643. 2013
- A typology of food security in developing countries. China Agricultural Economic Review. 5:118-153. 2013
- The Need for Improved Maps of Global Cropland. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 94:31-32. 2013
- Affordable nutrient solutions for improved food security as evidenced by crop trials. PLOS ONE. vol. 8. 2013
- Identifying recommendation domains for targeting dual-purpose maize-based interventions in crop-livestock systems in East Africa. Land Use Policy. 30:834-846. 2013
- Re-examining the inverse relationship between farm size and efficiency The empirical evidence in China. China Agricultural Economic Review. 5:473-488. 2013
- Spatial-temporal changes of rice area and production in China during 1980-2010 [in Chinese], 近30年中国水稻种植区域与产量时空变化分析. Acta Geographica Sinica. 2013(05). 2013
- Using cross-entropy method simulates spatial distribution of rice in Northeast China [in Chinese], 利用交叉信息熵模拟东北地区水稻种植面积空间分布. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering. 2013(17). 2013
- A Hybrid Wetland Map for China: A Synergistic Approach Using Census and Spatially Explicit Datasets. PLOS ONE. 7. 2012
- A tale of two countries: Spatial and temporal patterns of rice productivity in China and Brazil. China Economic Review. 23:690-703. 2012
- Dynamic Agricultural Supply Response Under Economic Transformation: A Case Study of Henan, China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 94:370-376. 2012
- Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa, An exploration into alternative investment options 2012
- International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), Model description 2012
- Road connectivity, population, and crop production in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Agricultural Economics. 43:89-103. 2012
- Land use change and environmental stress of wheat, rice and corn production in China. China Economic Review. 22:461-473. 2011
- What is the irrigation potential for Africa? A combined biophysical and socioeconomic approach. Food Policy. 36:770-782. 2011
- Agricultural water productivity assessment for the Yellow River Basin. Agricultural Water Management. 98:1297-1306. 2011
- Global-scale assessment of potential future risks of food insecurity. Journal of Risk Research. 14:1143-1160. 2011
- The sources of total factor productivity growth in Chinese agriculture: technological progress or efficiency gain?. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. 9:181-203. 2011
- Scenario-based assessment of future food security. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 21:3-17. 2011
- Cropland for sub-Saharan Africa: A synergistic approach using five land cover data sets. Geophysical Research Letters. 38. 2011
- Road connectivity and its impact on crop production 2011
- Yellow River basin: living with scarcity.. Water International. 35:681-701. 2010
- Crop Production and Road Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Spatial Analysis 2010
- Exploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural R&D investments in East and Central Africa. Agricultural Economics. 41:177-190. 2010
- A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107:8035-8040. 2010
- Paver le chemin du développement?, L'impact des infrastructures de transports sur la production agricole et la réduction de la pauvreté en République démocratique du Congo 2010
- Water productivity assessment for China's Yellow river basin 2010
- What is the irrigation potential for Africa?, A combined biophysical and socioeconomic approach 2010
- World food price bubble and China's food security 2010
- Impact of growing season temperature on wheat productivity in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149:1009-1014. 2009
- Generating plausible crop distribution maps for Sub-Saharan Africa using a spatially disaggregated data fusion and optimization approach. Agricultural Systems. 99:126-140. 2009
- AEZ allocation and economic efficiency of Chinese agricultural R&D investment 2009
- World Food Price Bubble and China’s Food Security. Business and Public Administration Studies. 4:22. 2009
- A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change. Global and Planetary Change. 64:222-235. 2008
- Technology adoption under seed access constraints and the economic impacts of improved pigeonpea varieties in Tanzania. Agricultural Economics. 39:309-323. 2008
- A tale of two countries, Spatial and temporal patterns of rice productivity in China and Brazil 2008
- Exploring strategic priorities for regional agricultural R&D investments in East and Central Africa 2008
- Assessing the Potential Impact of Avian Influenza on Poultry in West Africa: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 58:348-367. 2007
- Application of DREAM in evaluation of resources for agricultural research 2007
- Assessment of the adoption and impact of improved pigeonpea varieties in Tanzania 2007
- Benefit-cost analysis of Uganda's clonal coffee replanting program, An ex-ante analysis 2007
- Evaluation of DREAM model and its potential application in China 2007
- Generating plausible crop distribution and performance maps for Sub-Saharan Africa using a spatially disaggregated data fusion and optimization approach 2007
- Quality or volume?, An economic evaluation of coffee development strategies for Uganda 2007
- An entropy approach to spatial disaggregation of agricultural production. Agricultural Systems. 90:329-347. 2006
- An evaluation of alternative development strategies for Robusta coffee in Uganda 2006
- Ex post assessment methods of climate forecast impacts. Climate Research. 33:67-79. 2006
- Assessing the spatial distribution of crop areas using a cross-entropy method. 2017 9th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images (MultiTemp). 7:310-323. 2005
- SPATIAL PATTERNS OF CROP YIELDS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. Cuadernos de Economía. 124:361-381. 2004
- ASSESSING THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF CROP PRODUCTION USING A CROSS-ENTROPY METHOD 2004
- Delayed impact of the North Atlantic Oscillation on biosphere productivity in Asia. Geophysical Research Letters. 31. 2004
- Assessing the spatial distribution of crop production using a generalized cross-entropy approach 2004
- Displacements of reinforced slopes subjected to seismic loads. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. vol. 126. 2000
- Displacement charts for slopes subjected to seismic loads 1999
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chapter
- Agriculture: More water and better farming for improved food security 2016
- Food security in Yemen, An integrated, cross-sector, and multi-level analysis 2013
- Assessing agricultural potential in South Sudan – A spatial analysis method 2012
- The impact of global warming on Chinese wheat productivity 2008
- From basin to pixel, High resolution cereal water productivity on a global scale 2007
- Future cropland in Africa, The outlook for green and blue water fluxes 2007
- Generating new knowledge for strategic agricultural R&D assessment in Eastern and Central Africa (ECA): preliminary baseline simulations of the potential economic impact of productivity growth in major food and cash crops 2002
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conference paper
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document
- Climate change, food security, and socioeconomic livelihood in Pacific Islands 2015
- Local warming and violent conflict in North and South Sudan 2013
- Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa: An exploration into alternative investment options 2012
- Global livestock production systems 2011
- Assessing food security in Yemen, An innovative integrated, cross-sector, and multilevel approach 2010
- Food security and climate change, Challenges to 2050 and beyond 2010
- Priorities for realizing the potential to increase agricultural productivity and growth in Western and Central Africa 2009
- Ethiopia, growth options and poverty reduction 2006
- Strategic priorities for agricultural development in Eastern and Central Africa 2006
- Impact of global warming on Chinese wheat productivity 2005
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report
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review
- How Could Agricultural Land Systems Contribute to Raise Food Production Under Global Change. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 1432-1442. 2014
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working paper
- Agriculture production and transport infrastructure in East Africa: An application of spatial autoregression 2015
- Regional strategic alternatives for agriculture-led growth and poverty reduction in West Africa 2008
- Assessment of the adoption and impact of improved pigeonpea varieties in Tanzania 2005