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 Land Use and Global Environment Lab

Welcome to the Land Use and Global Environment (LUGE) Research Group
at the University of British Columbia

 We study linkages between human land use, global environmental change,
and food security



Sample Publications

Sidhu, B. S., Mehrabi, Z., Ramankutty, N., and Kandlikar, M. 2023. How can machine learning help in understanding the impact of climate change on crop yields? Environmental Research Letters,  18(2), 024008.
doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb164

Klassen, S., Luna-Perez, E., Bridson, N., Castrejón Violante, L., Wittman, H., & Ramankutty, N. (2023). Beyond equivalency: comparing governance and sustainability of three North American organic standards. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 47(10), 1607-1633.
doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2023.2254717
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Klassen, S., and Murphy, S., 2020. Equity as both a means and an end: Lessons for resilient food systems from COVID-19. World Development, 136, 105104. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105104

Sidhu, B.S., Kandlikar, M. and Ramankutty, N., 2020. Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs. World Development, 128, p.104836. doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104836

Ricciardi, V., Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Jarvis, L. and Chookolingo, B., 2018. How much of the world's food do smallholders produce? Global food security, 17, pp.64-72. doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2018.05.002

Mehrabi, Z., Ellis, E.C. and Ramankutty, N., 2018. The challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet. Nature Sustainability, 1(8), p.409. doi.org/10.14288/1.0376069

Seufert, V., and Ramankutty, N., 2017. Many shades of gray—The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture​. Science Advances, 3(3). doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602638
See our full list of publications here

News

August 25, 2024
A big welcome to our new PhD student, Himanshu Pathak!

May 3, 2024 

We're happy to welcome Naia to the lab, a visiting PhD student from the University of Colorado Boulder.

April 2, 2024
Another successful PhD defence- this time for Ginni. Hooray for Dr. Braich!

​February 26, 2024
Laura's PhD defence was a raging success!  Congratulations Dr. Castrejon Violante! 

​February 8, 2024
Jumi successfully defended her PhD. Three cheers for Dr. Gogoi!  

December 15, 2023
We're very happy to be welcoming PhD student Farrukh Chishtie to the Luge Lab 

October, 2023 
Navin, Kushank, and Jeff took a trip to Kitchener for the Solutionscapes annual meeting


September 21, 2023
Navin authored a perspective piece on the roles of both technological innovation and cultural change in advancing sustainability objectives

September 17, 2023
Charlotte joined the LUGE team as lab manager.

June 27, 2023
After a fruitful 10 month visit, we said we're sad to bid farewell to Patrick, who is headed back to 
UCLouvain. Goodbye Patrick!


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