Larissa Jarvis
Larissa has a new position at McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative! Check out her LinkedIn for updates.
Originally from Montreal, Larissa grew up in Newfoundland and Calgary before returning to complete a BSc. Specialization in Environmental Sciences at Concordia University. Following her undergraduate studies, she spent two years working as a analyst in an environmental laboratory before pursuing a MSc through the Integrated Water Resources Management program in McGill's Department of Bioresource Engineering.
She has been working at LUGE since 2013, collaborating on various projects in the area of land-use, agriculture, and food security, while helping to develop the global database on agricultural census data.
Selected publications
Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Waha, K., Jarvis, L., Kremen, C., Herrero, M. and Rieseberg, L.H., 2018. Trends in global agricultural land use: implications for environmental health and food security. Annual review of plant biology, 69, pp.789-815.
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.
Oakleaf, J.R., Kennedy, C.M., Baruch-Mordo, S., West, P.C., Gerber, J.S., Jarvis, L. and Kiesecker, J., 2015. A world at risk: aggregating development trends to forecast global habitat conversion. PloS one, 10(10), p.e0138334.
Originally from Montreal, Larissa grew up in Newfoundland and Calgary before returning to complete a BSc. Specialization in Environmental Sciences at Concordia University. Following her undergraduate studies, she spent two years working as a analyst in an environmental laboratory before pursuing a MSc through the Integrated Water Resources Management program in McGill's Department of Bioresource Engineering.
She has been working at LUGE since 2013, collaborating on various projects in the area of land-use, agriculture, and food security, while helping to develop the global database on agricultural census data.
Selected publications
Ramankutty, N., Mehrabi, Z., Waha, K., Jarvis, L., Kremen, C., Herrero, M. and Rieseberg, L.H., 2018. Trends in global agricultural land use: implications for environmental health and food security. Annual review of plant biology, 69, pp.789-815.
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.
Oakleaf, J.R., Kennedy, C.M., Baruch-Mordo, S., West, P.C., Gerber, J.S., Jarvis, L. and Kiesecker, J., 2015. A world at risk: aggregating development trends to forecast global habitat conversion. PloS one, 10(10), p.e0138334.
