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
We study linkages between human land use, global environmental change, and food security
Sample Publications
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 Ramankutty, N and Graesser, J., 2017. Latin American oil palm follows an unfamiliar route to avoid deforestation. Environmental Research Letters 12 (4). doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6940 Samberg, L.H., Gerber, J.S., Ramankutty, N., Herrero, M., and West, P.C., 2016. Subnational distribution of average farm size and smallholder contributions to global food production. Environmental Research Letters, 11(12). doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/124010 Lesk, C., Rowhani, P. and Ramankutty, N., 2016. Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production. Nature, 529(7584), p.84. doi.org/10.1038/nature16467, 2016 See our full list of publications here
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News
February 11, 2019
Check out our latest blog post, which is a response to the EAT-Lancet report's proposed diet. October 31, 2018 We launched an exhibit called The Colours of Food Security! August 6, 2018 We launched a new blog called the Nature of Food! May 22, 2018 Check out our new publication that asks, "How much of the world's food do smallholders produce?" September 29, 2017 New publication! "Detection of cropland field parcels from Landsat imagery" March 10, 2017 "Many shades of gray—The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture"- the latest research out of the LUGE lab has just been published in Science Advances. An opinion piece is also available on The Conversation. ... |
