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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

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

November 16, 2020
Ginni, Balsher, Juan and Vinny contributed to the SDG Atlas 2020

November 3, 2020
A new paper led by Zia and featuring Juan, Christian, Vinny, Navin and others is out in Nature Sustainability, and has been covered by NatGeo and Forbes.

October 9, 2020

Navin was awarded the Wihuri International Prize for his work on sustainability.

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.
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