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

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Sample Publications

Merhabi, Z. and Ramankutty, N. 2019. Synchronized failure of global crop production. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0862-x

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

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News

June 5, 2020
Balsher wrote a piece featured in CGIAR's blog on groundwater depletion in Punjab.

March 26, 2020
Laura is featured in the Ubyssey commenting on UBC's approach to help food insecure students.

February 11, 2020
Navin gave the Bentley Lecture in Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Alberta, on the topic of "Farming on a Warming Planet"

January 16, 2020
New publication by Balsher, Milind & Navin on the impact that electricity tariffs have on groundwater consumption for agriculture.

November 18, 2019
Balsher has written an article for The Tribune on who is (and is not) to blame for poor air quality in North India.

October 10, 2019
Ginni and Zia are at the Herrenhausen conference in Hanover discussing food security and extreme events

See our recent news here

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