Publications 2016 - 2017 | Stanford Woods Institute

Food Security

Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

August 28, 2017 - Chuang Zhao, Bing Liu, Shilong Piao, Xuhui Wang, David B. Lobell, Yao Huang, Mengtian Huang, Yitong Yao, Simona Bassu, Philippe Ciais, Jean-Louis Durand, Joshua Elliott, Frank Ewert, Ivan A. Janssens, Tao Li, Erda Lin, Qiang Liua, Pierre Martre, Christoph Müller, Shushi Peng, Josep Peñuelas, Alex C. Ruane, Daniel Wallach, Tao Wang, Donghai Wu, Zhuo Liu, Yan Zhu, Zaichun Zhu, Senthold Asseng

Data Science for Food Security

August 9, 2017 - David Lobell, Marshall Burke

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Using satellite data to identify the causes of and potential solutions for yield gaps in India's Wheat Belt

July 26, 2017 - Meha Jain, Balwinder Singh, Amit Srivastava, Ram K. Malik, Andrew McDonald, David B Lobell

The Restructuring of South American Soy and Beef Production and Trade Under Changing Environmental Regulations

July 5, 2017 - Yannle Polain de Warouxa, Rachael D.Garrett, Jordan Graesser, Christoph Nolte, Christopher White, Eric F. Lambin

Food Insecurity and Health Care Expenditures in the United States, 2011–2013

June 13, 2017 - Seth A. Berkowitz M.D., M.P.H., Sanjay Basu M.D., Ph.D., James B. Meigs M.D., M.P.H., Hilary K. Seligman M.D., M.A.S.

Landsat-based classification in the cloud: An opportunity for a paradigm shift in land cover monitoring

June 1, 2017 - George Azzari, David Lobell

Identification of ditches and furrows using remote sensing: application to sediment modelling in the Tana watershed, Kenya

May 22, 2017 - Essayas K. Ayana, Jonathan R.B. Fisher, Perrine Hamel, Timothy M. Boucher

Towards fine resolution global maps of crop yields: Testing multiple methods and satellites in three countries

May 10, 2017 - George Azzari, Meha Jain, David Lobell

The political economy of biodiesel in an era of low oil prices

May 2, 2017 - Rosamond Naylor, Matthew Higgins

Petri dishes of an archipelago: the ecological rubble of the Chilean salmon farming industry

May 1, 2017 - Andrew Gerhart

Assessing the heterogeneity and persistence of farmers’ maize yield performance across the North China Plain

April 30, 2017 - Yi Zhao, David B Lobell

Continuous Corn and Soybean Yield Penalties across Hundreds of Thousands of Fields F

March 9, 2017 - Christopher A Seifert, Michael J Roberts, David B Lobell

Satellite-based assessment of yield variation and its determinants in smallholder African systems

February 15, 2017 - Marshall Burke, David Lobell

Deep Gaussian Process for Crop Yield Prediction Based on Remote Sensing Data

February 12, 2017 - Jiaxuan You, Xiaocheng Li, Melvin Low, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon

Poverty Alleviation Through Sustainable Palm Oil Production

January 30, 2017 - Rosamond Naylor, Walter Falcon

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Rebuttal to “A revisit to fishmeal usage and associated consequences in Chinese aquaculture”

January 27, 2017 - Ling Cao, Rosamond L. Naylor, Patrik Henriksson, Duncan Leadbitter, Max Troell, Wenbo Zhang

Prevalence of anaemia, deficiencies of iron and vitamin A and their determinants in rural women and young children: a cross-sectional study in Kalalé district of northern Benin

January 25, 2017 - Halimatou Alaofè, Jennifer Burney, Rosamond Naylor, Douglas Taren

Opportunity for marine fisheries reform in China

January 17, 2017 - Ling Cao, Yong Chen, Shuanglin Dong, Arthur Hansone, Bo Huang, Duncan Leadbitter, David C. Little, Ellen K. Pikitch, Yongsong Qiu, Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson, Ussif Rashid Sumaila, Meryl Williams, Guifang Xue, Yimin Ye, Wenbo Zhang, Yingqi Zhou, Ping Zhuang, Rosamond Naylor

Using remotely sensed temperature to estimate climate response functions

January 17, 2017 - Sam Heft-Neal, David B Lobell, Marshall Burke

Satellite detection of rising maize yield heterogeneity in the US Midwest

January 17, 2017 - David B Lobell , George Azzari

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