Food & land

Cultivated landscape is the symbol; pastel lime is the colour.

tools

  • DSSAT tool draft

    Simulates crop growth under specified weather, soil and management conditions.

  • Finds environmental features in satellite imagery through examples, search and review.

  • GCAM tool draft

    Connects energy, water, land, economy and climate in regional and global scenarios.

  • InVEST tool proposed

    Maps and values ecosystem services in terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and urban settings.

  • Part of Google Earth AI; given a user's local outcome data such as disease rates or crop yields, it picks relevant population and satellite signals and trains models for spatial prediction, downscaling and forecasting.

questions

organizations

  • Open Agroecology Laboratory organization draft

    Argentine network of rural organizations, technicians and researchers, grown out of Cooperativa Ayllu, CEFIC and reGOSH in Mendoza, that builds open-hardware instruments and a soil-data web app so farmers can track soil health through agroecological transitions.

books

  • The 1972 Club of Rome report by Meadows, Meadows, Randers and Behrens that used the World3 system-dynamics model to ask whether exponential growth in population and industry could continue on a finite planet.

  • World Dynamics book draft

    Jay Forrester's 1971 system-dynamics model of the world as one system of population, capital, food, resources and pollution; the model behind The Limits to Growth.

Symbol: "farm crops" by Made, Noun Project, CC BY 3.0.

staging: drafts and proposals shown