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Philip K. Thornton
Researcher at International Livestock Research Institute
Publications - 276
Citations - 28862
Philip K. Thornton is an academic researcher from International Livestock Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Food security & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 262 publications receiving 23930 citations. Previous affiliations of Philip K. Thornton include Asbury University & Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
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Livestock production: recent trends, future prospects
TL;DR: Demand for livestock products in the future could be heavily moderated by socio-economic factors such as human health concerns and changing socio-cultural values, and Livestock production is likely to be increasingly affected by carbon constraints and environmental and animal welfare legislation.
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Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies
Tara Garnett,M.C. Appleby,Andrew Balmford,Ian J. Bateman,Tim G. Benton,P. Bloomer,Barbara Burlingame,Marian Stamp Dawkins,Liam Dolan,David Fraser,Mario Herrero,Irene Hoffmann,Pete Smith,Philip K. Thornton,Camilla Toulmin,Sonja J. Vermeulen,H. C. J. Godfray +16 more
TL;DR: Clearer understanding is needed of the premises underlying SI and how it relates to food-system priorities and climate change poses challenges to agriculture.
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Climate-smart agriculture for food security
Leslie Lipper,Philip K. Thornton,Philip K. Thornton,Bruce M. Campbell,Bruce M. Campbell,Tobias Baedeker,Ademola K. Braimoh,Martin Bwalya,Patrick Caron,Andrea Cattaneo,Dennis Garrity,Kevin Henry,Ryan Hottle,Louise E. Jackson,Andy Jarvis,Andy Jarvis,Fred Kossam,Wendy Mann,Nancy McCarthy,Alexandre Meybeck,Henry Neufeldt,Thomas Remington,Pham Thi Sen,Reuben Sessa,Reynolds Shula,Austin Tibu,Emmanuel Torquebiau +26 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a set of CSA actions needed from public, private and civil society stakeholders: building evidence; increasing local institutional effectiveness; fostering coherence between climate and agricultural policies; and linking climate and agriculture financing.
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Decision support system for agrotechnology transfer: DSSAT v3
James W. Jones,Gordon Y. Tsuji,Gerrit Hoogenboom,L. A. Hunt,Philip K. Thornton,Paul W. Wilkens,D. T. Imamura,Walter Bowen,Upendra Singh +8 more
TL;DR: The decision support system for agrotechnology transfer (DSSAT) as discussed by the authors is a microcomputer software package that contains crop-soil simulation models, data bases for weather, soil, and crops, and strategy evaluation programs integrated with a ‘shell’ program which is the main user interface.
Food security and food production systems
John R. Porter,Liyong Xie,Andrew J. Challinor,Kevern L. Cochrane,S. Mark Howden,Muhammad Iqbal,David B. Lobell,Maria I. Travasso,Netra Chhetri,Karen A. Garrett,John Ingram,Leslie Lipper,Nancy McCarthy,Justin M. McGrath,Daniel R. Smith,Philip K. Thornton,James E. M. Watson,Lewis H. Ziska +17 more
TL;DR: The questions for this chapter are how far climate and its change affect current food production systems and food security and the extent to which they will do so in the future.