Workshop Sessions > Session 5

What’s new in modelling for cropping and farming systems design?

Chair:  Sentold Asseng (HEM-TUM, Munich)

Rapporteur: Uwe Grewer (Queensland Univ., Australia)

Day: Tuesday 1 November 2022

Time: 9.30 - 11.00

5.1. farmer’s decisions and their impacts at different scales on resilience, sustainability and ecosystem services?

Discussions based on presentations (15 min. each)

DHABSIM platform to enhance WEFE nexus decision-making in Mediterranean Agri-food Production: scaling decision-making from field to regional by incorporating climate change, market risk analysis, system representativeness, data quality, and the cost of ecosystem degradation (Hatem Belhouchette and Georgios Kleftodimos ; CIHEAM France)

Based on the abstracts:

• Trade-off analysis for promoting cereal and legume production through dedicated technological innovations and incentives for smallholder farmers in the MENA region (Hatem Belhouchette, CIHEAM, France)
• An holistic systemic approach embedded with ecosystem services values: Assessing the resilience of cereal farms in groundwater overexploitation in Maghreb region (Georgio Kleftodimos, CIHEAM, France)

5.2. Crop modelling at different scales under climate change and water scarcity

Discussions based on presentations

• Coupling machine learning-based cloud computing with multiple crop models for robust yield predictions in arid regions (Ahmed M.S. Kheir et al.; ARC, Egypt) (7 min.)
   
• Developing Data Science-based drought management plan to increase farming community preparedness to drought (Youssef Brouziyne, IWMI Egypt) (7 min.)
   
• Big data, small explanatory power? Lessons learnt with random forest predictive modeling of crop yield in contrasting farming systems (João Vasco Silva et al., One CGIAR and Wur) (15 min.) (online)

5.3. Can we coordinate our efforts on agricultural systems modelling in the MENA region?

Discussion introduced by Sentold Asseng (AgMIP) and Vinay Nangia (ICARDA)