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V. R. ReddyCrop Systems and Global Change Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USDA-ARS, 10300 Baltimore Ave. Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
V. AmbumozhiInstitute for Global Environmental Strategies, Kansai Research Center, Kobe 651-00, Japan
K. R. ReddyDept. of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Achieving Food Security and Mitigating Global Environmental Change: Is there a role for Crop
Models in Decision Making?
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Outline
• Past and future trends in population, food production and climate change perturbations
• Global environmental change and its impact on agriculture production systems
• Role of crop simulation models in addressing future food security and climate change
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Issues of 21st Century, Particularly in Developing Countries
• Meeting food demands for the growing population
• Reducing the risks of soil and ecosystem degradation
• Minimizing the risks of eutrophication and contamination of natural waters
• Decreasing the net emissions CO2 and other greenhouse gases
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Trends That Shape Our Future
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Year
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World Population
Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthPast, Present and Future World Population
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56% 10% 50% 120%
-5% 42% 39%
Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthPresent and Future World Population Trends
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the Earth Global Major Foods – Per Capita Consumption
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P= 67%, and A= 46%
Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthMaize - Production and Yield – Selected
Counties
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthRice - Production and Yield – Selected Counties
P= 60%, and A= 55%
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthRice - Production and Yield – Selected Counties
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Cropland area Irrigated area Salinized area
----------------------------- Mha --------------------------------
China 124.0 54.4 (22%) 7-8 (14%)
India 161.8 54.8 (31%) 10-30 (50%)
USA 177.0 22.4 (13%) 4.5 -6 (15%)
USSR 204.1 19.9 (2%) 2.5-4.5 (21%)
World 1364.2 271.7 (21%) 62-82 (37%)
Percent change since 1985
Year 2000
Trends, Signs and Signatures from the Earth Cropland area, Irrigation and Salinization
S.G. Pritchard and J. S. Amthor, 2005
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthPopulation, cereal yield, arable and irrigated
area, N use
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Feeding 10 Billion Mouths
• We must develop the capacity to feed 10 billion people within in the next 40 to 50 years
• The average world current cereal yield is about 3 tons per ha for about 6 billion people
• We need about 4 tons per ha for 8 billion (33 % more than the current), and 5 tons per ha for 10 billion (67 % more than the current)
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• Increase in the area of land under cultivation
• Displacement of lower yielding crops by higher yielding ones (done since the dawn of domestication)
• Efficiency of crop production in terms of:Per unit of land area (yield per ha)Per unit of timePer unit of inputs such as fertilizers, water and
labor etc.
Routes to Greater Food Production
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Here comes the greatest challenge of our time,
The Global Climate Change
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the Earth
• Greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O etc.)
• Temperatures
• Glaciers, oceans and sea-levels
• Precipitation patterns and drought intensities
• Extreme events
• Higher ozone and UV-B radiation
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthGlobal Carbon Emissions- Sources
Year
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Liquids
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CementFlaring
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthGlobal Carbon Emissions and Carbon Fixation
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Year
1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
CO
2 C
once
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tion,
ppm
250
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthAtmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthProjected Global Carbon Dioxide
Concentrations
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CFCs are commonly used as refrigerants, solvents, and foam blowing agents. The most common CFCs are CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, CFC-114, and CFC-115.
Global Warming and the Ozone Story
Global Warming Process Ozone Depleting Process
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Period CO2 Methane Nitrous oxide
Chloroflu-rocarbon-11
Hydrofluro-carbon-23
Perfluro-methane
Pre-industrial concentration (1850)
about 280 ppm
about 700 ppb
about 270 ppb
zero zero 40ppt
Concentration in 1998
365ppm
1745ppb
314ppb
268ppt
14ppt
80ppt
Rate of change
1.5ppm/yr
7.0 ppb/yr
0.8ppb/yr
-1.4ppt/yr
0.55 ppt/yr
1 ppt/yr
Atmospheric lifetime
5 to 200
years
12 years
114years
45years
260Years
>50,000 years
Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthPast and current levels in global greenhouse
gas concentrations, rates of change and atmospheric lifetime
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Trends, Signs and Signatures from the EarthFuture trends in global carbon dioxide concentration and associated climate change, if no interventions are made
Climate variable 2025 2050 2100
Carbon dioxide concentration
405-460 ppm
445-640 ppm
540-970 ppm
Global mean temperature change from the year 1990
0.4-1.1oC
0.8-2.6oC
1.4-5.8 oC
Global mean sea-level rise from the year 1990
3-14cm
5-32cm
9-88cm
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityCotton Photosynthesis – Solar Radiation
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityPhotosynthesis – Leaf Water Potential
Well-watered Water stressed
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityCotton Photosynthesis – UV-B Radiation
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityTemperature and CO2 – Rice Growth
Baker and Allen, 1993
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityTemperature and CO2 – Rice Yield
Baker and Allen, 1993
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityRice Growing Areas
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Growing season temperatures from those locations listed inthe previous slide and with an additional 5°C added to thosetemperatures relative to optimum and marginal conditions
Sites
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15
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Ambient temperature: 25.36°C = 8.26 t/haAmbient plus 5°C: 30.36°C = 5.51 t//ha, 33%
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20 25 30 35 40
4-week old cotton seedlings
Climate Change and Crop ProductivityTemperature and Cotton Growth
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityTemperature and CO2 – Cotton Reproductive Growth
Fruit Production Efficiency
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High Temperature Effects on CottonHeat-blasted flower buds and flowers
San Joaquin Valley, California
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityTemperature Effects on Crop Yield – Several Major Crops
Crop Topt, °C
Tmax, °C
Yield
at Topt, t/ha
Yield
at 28 °C, t/ha
Yield at 32°C
t/ha
% decrease (28 to 32 °C)
Rice 25 36 7.55 6.31 2.93 54
Soybean 28 39 3.41 3.41 3.06 10
Dry bean 22 32 2.87 1.39 0.00 100
Peanut 25 40 3.38 3.22 2.58 20
Grain sorghum
26 35 12.24 11.75 6.95 41
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityTemperature and CO2 – Rangeland C4 Grass –
Big BluestemVegetative Weight and Seed Weight
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Day of the Year
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Phoenix, AZ
Stoneville, MS
Maros, Indonesia
Long-Term Average Temperatures
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Climate Change and Crop ProductivityPresent and Projected Temperature Changes
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• Even though elevated CO2 provided greater protection from abiotic stress effects on vegetative and photosynthetic processes, the damaging effects of either high temperatures or elevated UV-B levels on reproductive process were not ameliorated by elevated CO2.
• There are no beneficial effects of elevated CO2 on reproductive processes in the crops investigated (cotton, bean, rice, sorghum and soybean).
• There are no beneficial interaction of temperature or UV-B on CO2 effects on reproductive processes.
• Higher temperatures and higher UV-B aggravated the damage on many reproductive processes.
Climate Change and Crop ProductivityConclusions – Temperature and CO2 Interactions
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Provide quantitative description and understandingof biological problems
Help pinpoint knowledge gaps
Design critical experiments
Synthesize knowledge about different componentsof a system
Summarize data
Transfer research results to users
Why Do We Need Models?
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Farm management (e.g. planting, irrigation, fertilization and harvest scheduling)
Resource management (e.g. several Govt. agencies and private comp. use)
Climate change and policy analysis
Production forecasts (e.g. global, regional and local forecasts)
Research and development (e.g. research priorities and guide fund allocations)
Turning information into knowledge (e.g. information overflow in every area including agricultural research)
Crop Model Applications for Natural Resource Management
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Model MechanicsGOSSYM: Model Structure
PMAP
COTPLT
GOSSYM
CLYMAT
SOIL
CHEM
PNET
GROWTH
PLTMAP
OUTPUT
PIX
PREP
RUTGRONITROMATAL
DATESTMPSOL
FRTLIZ
ETUPTAKECAPFLONITRIF
RIMPED
ABSCISE
FREQ
RAINFERT
RUNOFF GRAFLO
Models needs to be robust as simple models can’t predict complex process.
Like any other system, models needs to be continuously updated as new information becomes available.
Models needs to be extensively tested across diverse environments, soil conditions and cultural practices.
Information feedback from scientists, farmers and farm managers needs to be taken for user-friendliness.
Mechanistic, process-level cotton simulation model - GOSSYM
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Crop Model Applications for climate Change Scenarios – Case Study
Reddy et al., 2002
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Crop Model Applications for climate Change Scenarios – Regional Emphasis
Doherty et al. 2003)
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• Climate change has no boundaries, and can’t be viewed in isolation.
• We should consider other stresses on food production systems such as population dynamics, habitat destruction and fragmentation, land-use changes, biodiversity and invasive species dominance.
• The current and projected changes in climate are unprecedented, and the ecosystems including managed ecosystems such as agriculture may not cope with the changes projected in climate.
Climate Change and Crop ProductivitySome Considerations
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• Except limiting the causes of climate change, there are no other long-term strategies.
• For a shorter-term, we must develop crop varieties which can withstand changes projected in climate to meet the growing demands for food.
• We must also develop models that provide adequate warning or guidance for policy makers to act proactively rather than reactively.
• Everybody and every nation should participate in the process, opportunities are there for everyone.
Climate Change and Crop ProductivitySome Considerations
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We will be over 10 billion by 2050 in a much different climate
than what we have today
We need to produce enough goods and services in a
sustainable way
Thanks and any Questions?
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