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Alfons Weersink
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Latest papers
Guiding policies for agricultural nitrous oxide emission reduction with behavioral insights and experimentation.
NPJ sustainable agriculture · 2025
Long-Term Cover Cropping Suppresses Foliar and Fruit Disease in Processing Tomatoes.
Plant disease · 2023
Economic and environmental nitrate leaching consequences of 4R nitrogen management practices including use of inhibitors for corn production in Ontario.
Journal of environmental management · 2021
Latest funding
- $1,247,950
The Global Nitrogen Innovation Center for Clean Energy and the Environment (NICCEE)
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $1,999,933
CANN2ONET-A Canadian Nitrous Oxide Collaboration Network to Meet Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $689,408
A roadmap for reducing the greenhouse gas footprint of Ontario grain production
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
8 publications.
Guiding policies for agricultural nitrous oxide emission reduction with behavioral insights and experimentation.
Li T, Liu Y, Weersink A, Wagner-Riddle C
Long-Term Cover Cropping Suppresses Foliar and Fruit Disease in Processing Tomatoes.
Trueman CL, Awrey JC, Delaporte A, Kerr J, Weersink A, Van Eerd LL
Economic and environmental nitrate leaching consequences of 4R nitrogen management practices including use of inhibitors for corn production in Ontario.
De Laporte BA, Banger K, Weersink A, Wagner-Riddle C, Grant B, Smith W
COVID-19 and the agri-food system in the United States and Canada.
Weersink A, von Massow M, Bannon N, Ifft J, Maples J, McEwan K, McKendree MGS, Nicholson C, Novakovic A, Rangarajan A, Richards T, Rickard B, Rude J, Schipanski M, Schnitkey G, Schulz L, Schuurman D, Schwartzkopf-Genswein K, Stephenson M, Thompson J, Wood K
Assessing the Value of Antibiotics on Farms: Modeling the Impact of Antibiotics and Vaccines for Managing Lawsonia intracellularis in Hog Production.
Jansen T, Weersink A, von Massow M, Poljak Z
An economic evaluation of intervention strategies for Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED).
Weng L, Weersink A, Poljak Z, de Lange K, von Massow M
Evaluating critical factors to the economic feasibility of semi-intensive pig rearing in western Kenya.
Levy M, Dewey C, Weersink A, Mutua F, Carter N, Poljak Z
Carbon banks: an efficient means to exchange sequestered carbon.
Esuola AG, Weersink A
The Global Nitrogen Innovation Center for Clean Energy and the Environment (NICCEE)
Principal investigators: Wagner-Riddle, Claudia C
Keywords: co-development of practices; cropping systems; ennvironmental policy; food production; green ammonia; greenhouse gas emissions; integrated assessment models; national nitrogen flows; nitrogen fertilizer; soil nitrous oxide emissions
CANN2ONET-A Canadian Nitrous Oxide Collaboration Network to Meet Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Targets
Principal investigators: Wagner-Riddle, Claudia C
Keywords: agri-environmental policy; agri-environmental sustainability; behavioural economics; biogeochemical models; cost of management practices; grain and oilseed production; greenhouse gas mitigation practices; nitrogen fertilizer management; soil biogeochemistry; soil nitrous oxide emissions
A roadmap for reducing the greenhouse gas footprint of Ontario grain production
Principal investigators: Wagner-Riddle, Claudia C
Keywords: agri-environmental sustainability; cover crops; grain production; greenhouse gas emission mitigation; nitrogen fertilizer management; plant nitrogen uptake; soil greenhouse gas emission
NSERC CREATE for Climate-Smart Soils (CREATE-CSS)
Principal investigators: Wagner-Riddle, Claudia C
Keywords: agroecosystem sustainability metrics; carbon credit; cropping systems; emission reduction targets; life-cycle assessment; soil biogeochemistry; soil carbon sequestration; soil greenhouse gas emissions; soil microbial ecology
4D wheat: Diversity, Domestication, Discovery, Delivery
Principal investigators: Weersink, Alfons
Keywords: wheat, genetics, sequencing, gene editing technologies, digital imaging, bioinformatics
Water economics, policy and governance network
Keywords: water; economics; policy; governance; valuation; social justice
NSERC - CANPOLIN (Canadian Pollination Initiative)
Principal investigators: Kevan, Peter
Transformative change in biosphere greenhouse gas management
Principal investigators: Fulton, Murray E.
Keywords: greenhouse gas management; carbon credit trading; contracts; agriculture; forestry; endogenous policy; rural impacts; option values; uncertainty; transformative change; R&D; carbon sequestration
Cost-effective agricultural management strategies and technologies in mitigating GHG emissions
Principal investigators: Weersink, Alfons
Keywords: tradeoffs between economic and environmental sustainability; integrated economic and ecological models; abatement costs; spatial variability; linkage of bio-physical scientists and economists
Development and implementation of weed management strategies
Principal investigators: Swanton, Clarence
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Zvonimir Poljak and Cate Dewey: 9 shared papers
- Zvonimir Poljak and Alfons Weersink: 2 shared papers
- Claudia Wagner-Riddle and Alfons Weersink: 2 shared papers
- Mike von Massow and Alfons Weersink: 2 shared papers
- Zvonimir Poljak and Mike von Massow: 1 shared paper
- Alfons Weersink and Cate Dewey: 1 shared paper
- Ontario Agricultural College
- School of Environmental Sciences
- Bioinformatics
- Department of Population Medicine
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