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Navin Ramankutty
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Latest papers
Current food trade helps mitigate future climate change impacts in lower-income nations.
PloS one · 2025 · senior author
Biodiversity-production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes.
Nature ecology & evolution · 2024
Both technological innovations and cultural change are key to a sustainability transition.
PLoS biology · 2023 · first author
Latest funding
- $118,000
Data science and modelling to examine sustainable food system solutions
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $104,240
Climate Change and Civilization Collapse
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $42,400
Climate Change and Civilization Collapse
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
16 publications.
Current food trade helps mitigate future climate change impacts in lower-income nations.
Bajaj K, Mehrabi Z, Kastner T, Jägermeyr J, Müller C, Schwarzmüller F, Hertel TW, Ramankutty N
Biodiversity-production feedback effects lead to intensification traps in agricultural landscapes.
Burian A, Kremen C, Wu JS, Beckmann M, Bulling M, Garibaldi LA, Krisztin T, Mehrabi Z, Ramankutty N, Seppelt R
Both technological innovations and cultural change are key to a sustainability transition.
Ramankutty N
GEnZ explorer: a tool for visualizing agroclimate to inform research and regulatory risk assessment.
Melnick RL, Jarvis L, Hendley P, Garcia-Alonso M, Metzger MJ, Ramankutty N, Teem JL, Roberts A
How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration.
Löfqvist S, Kleinschroth F, Bey A, de Bremond A, DeFries R, Dong J, Fleischman F, Lele S, Martin DA, Messerli P, Meyfroidt P, Pfeifer M, Rakotonarivo SO, Ramankutty N, Ramprasad V, Rana P, Rhemtulla JM, Ryan CM, Vieira ICG, Wells GJ, Garrett RD
Ten facts about land systems for sustainability.
Meyfroidt P, de Bremond A, Ryan CM, Archer E, Aspinall R, Chhabra A, Camara G, Corbera E, DeFries R, Díaz S, Dong J, Ellis EC, Erb KH, Fisher JA, Garrett RD, Golubiewski NE, Grau HR, Grove JM, Haberl H, Heinimann A, Hostert P, Jobbágy EG, Kerr S, Kuemmerle T, Lambin EF, Lavorel S, Lele S, Mertz O, Messerli P, Metternicht G, Munroe DK, Nagendra H, Nielsen JØ, Ojima DS, Parker DC, Pascual U, Porter JR, Ramankutty N, Reenberg A, Roy Chowdhury R, Seto KC, Seufert V, Shibata H, Thomson A, Turner BL, Urabe J, Veldkamp T, Verburg PH, Zeleke G, Zu Ermgassen EKHJ
Global option space for organic agriculture is delimited by nitrogen availability.
Barbieri P, Pellerin S, Seufert V, Smith L, Ramankutty N, Nesme T
Market-mediated responses confound policies to limit deforestation from oil palm expansion in Malaysia and Indonesia.
Taheripour F, Hertel TW, Ramankutty N
Science-graphic art partnerships to increase research impact.
Khoury CK, Kisel Y, Kantar M, Barber E, Ricciardi V, Klirs C, Kucera L, Mehrabi Z, Johnson N, Klabin S, Valiño Á, Nowakowski K, Bartomeus I, Ramankutty N, Miller A, Schipanski M, Gore MA, Novy A
Synchronized failure of global crop production.
Mehrabi Z, Ramankutty N
Data science and modelling to examine sustainable food system solutions
Principal investigators: Ramankutty, Navin
Keywords: agriculture; food system; sustainability; environment; climate change; modelling; data science
Climate Change and Civilization Collapse
Principal investigators: Steel, Daniel P.
Keywords: climate change; collapse; precautionary principle; risk
Climate Change and Civilization Collapse
Principal investigators: Steel, Daniel P.
Keywords: climate change; collapse; precautionary principle; risk
Sustainable global food systems
Principal investigators: Ramankutty, Navin
Keywords: sustainable agriculture; global data; geospatial analysis; global modelling; Earth system science; land use; climate impacts; sustainable food systems
Digging into the Farm to School Movement: Assessing the Environmental and Social Impacts of Connecting Learners and Growers through Food Literacy and Sustainable Local Food Procurement Partnerships in British Columbia, Canada
Principal investigators: Soma, Tammara R.
Keywords: food system; food security; farm to school; social innovation; land use planning
Farming on a changing planet: Developing the scientific basis for designing farming systems that are productive, have low environmental costs, and are resilient to climate change.
Principal investigators: Ramankutty, Navin
The role of small farms in global food security and sustainability
Principal investigators: Ramankutty, Navin
Keywords: small farms; smallholder agriculture; sustainability; food security
Global Food Security And Sustainability
Principal investigators: Ramankutty, Navin
Global Food Security and Sustainability
Principal investigators: Ramankutty, Navin
Global Food Security and Sustainability
Principal investigators: Ramankutty, Navin
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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