Adapting to Global Environmental Change: How Can We Ensure Food Security in a Time of Uncertainty?

Meha Jain

Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan

“Adapting to Global Environmental Change: How Can We Ensure Food Security in a Time of Uncertainty?”

Assistant Professor Jain’s research examines the impacts of environmental change on agricultural production, and strategies that farmers may adopt to reduce negative impacts. She does this by combining remote sensing and geospatial analyses with household-level and census datasets to examine farmer decision-making and behavior across large spatial and temporal scales. To date her work has focused on the impacts of weather variability and groundwater depletion on agricultural production in India, and whether farmers are able to adapt their cropping practices to mitigate these impacts.

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