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Christian Balzer
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 3
Citations - 11729
Christian Balzer is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Food security. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 9506 citations.
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Solutions for a cultivated planet
Jonathan A. Foley,Navin Ramankutty,Kate A. Brauman,E. S. Cassidy,James S. Gerber,M. Johnston,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Christine S. O’Connell,Deepak K. Ray,Paul C. West,Christian Balzer,Elena M. Bennett,Stephen R. Carpenter,Jason Hill,Chad Monfreda,Stephen Polasky,Johan Rockström,John Sheehan,Stefan Siebert,David Tilman,David P. M. Zaks +20 more
TL;DR: It is shown that tremendous progress could be made by halting agricultural expansion, closing ‘yield gaps’ on underperforming lands, increasing cropping efficiency, shifting diets and reducing waste, which could double food production while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
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Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture
TL;DR: Per capita demand for crops, when measured as caloric or protein content of all crops combined, has been a similarly increasing function of per capita real income since 1960 and forecasts a 100–110% increase in global crop demand from 2005 to 2050.
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Optimal temperature for malaria transmission is dramatically lower than previously predicted.
Eerin A. Mordecai,Krijin P. Paaijmans,Leah R. Johnson,Christian Balzer,Tal Ben-Horin,Emily de Moor,Amy McNally,Samraat Pawar,Sadie J. Ryan,Thomas C. Smith,Kevin D. Lafferty +10 more
TL;DR: A model with more realistic ecological assumptions about the thermal physiology of insects is built, which predicts optimal malaria transmission at 25 °C (6-°C lower than previous models), and predicts that transmission decreases dramatically at temperatures > 28 ° C, altering predictions about how climate change will affect malaria.