A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change

By Junguo Liu, Steffen Fritz, C. V. Wesenbeeck, M. Fuchs, Liangzhi You, Michael Obersteiner, Hong Yang. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science

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Highlighting continued uncertainty in global land cover maps for the user community (2011, background): “as inputs to global models of land use and land use change (Foley et al 2005, Verburg et al 2010), climate modelling (Pielke 2005), assessment of available land for biofuels (Cai et al 2011), food security (Liu et al 2008) and as the basis for crop distribution modelling (You et al 2009). Applicatio”
Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects (2019, background): “In our sample, only Liu et al. (2008), Müller, Waha, Bondeau, and Heinke (2014), and de Sherbinin, Chai-Onn, Jaiteh, et al. (2014) used multiple scenarios with confidence intervals bounding the results.”
Calibration and bias correction of climate projections for crop modelling: An idealised case study over Europe (2013, methodology): “…l model to (daily) observations, and uses a change in mean climate (usually using monthly means) from one or more AOGCMs with the statistical model to generate daily data in the future (e.g. Mearns et al., 1997; Liu et al., 2008; Thornton et al., 2011; Ines et al., 2011; Osborne et al., 2012).”
Chemical ecology in coupled human and natural systems: people, manioc, multitrophic interactions and global change (2010, background): “With its high optimum temperature and ability to tolerate drought, manioc is expected to be little affected by climate change compared with crops such as wheat and rice (Lobell et al. 2008; Liu et al. 2008; Taub et al. 2008).”
Is Cassava the Answer to African Climate Change Adaptation? (2012, methodology): “This result is consistent with other studies (Liu et al., 2008; Lobell et al., 2008; Schlenker and Lobell, 2010).”
Assessing climate change impacts on sorghum and millet yields in the Sudanian and Sahelian savannas of West Africa (2013, methodology): “Following the approach of recent studies (Jones and Thornton 2003, Liu et al 2008) we used extensive simulations with the plot-scale process-based crop model SARRA-H version v.32 over a continental domain to derive such large-scale crop yields.”
Climate change adaptation and mitigation in smallholder crop–livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: a call for integrated impact assessments (2016, background): “2010) and cassava, which, being a starch crop resistant to high temperature and low rainfall, may benefit from CO2 fertilization (Liu et al. 2008).”
Implications of accounting for land use in simulations of ecosystem carbon cycling in Africa (2013, unknown): “…of the crop area (You et al., 2009), but large scale irrigation is probably less cost-effective than general improvements in agricultural practices to decrease the yield gap in African regions, or as an adaptive measure to mitigate climate change impacts (Liu et al., 2008; Ziervogel et al., 2008).”
Adaptation to climate change through the choice of cropping system and sowing date in sub-Saharan Africa (2013, unknown): “The degree of climate change impacts on agricultural production differs between crops (Challinor et al., 2007; Liu et al., 2008; Schlenker and Lobell, 2010; Thornton et al., 2011) and agricultural systems (Thornton et al., 2010).”