Funded Researchers
Staff
Kenneth Strzepek
- Climate, Water, and Food Specialist
- MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy
- Center for Global Change Science
Kenneth Strzepek is a research scientist with MIT's Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy. Strzepek's career work has focused on the intersection of engineering, environmental, and economic systems. He is the recipient of a 2015 J-WAFS seed grant for his project, "Advancing Water and Food Sustainability through Improved Understanding of Uncertainties in Climate Change and Climate Variability."
J-WAFS-funded projects
- Food security in Africa under a changing climate – Navigating the energy and agricultural transition to net zero
- The Jameel Index for food trade and vulnerability
- Advancing water and food sustainability through improved understanding of uncertainties in climate change and climate variability
Publications
- Bilateral Trade Welfare Impacts of India’s Export Ban of Non-Basmati Rice Using the Global Partial Equilibrium Simulation Model (GSIM)
- Climate-Resilient Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Assessing the food security implications of climate change on global food trade
- Comment on 'Egypt's water budget deficit and suggested mitigation policies for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam filling scenarios'
- A climate change modelling framework for financial stress testing in Southern Africa
- Implications on food security in high food importing countries: food import vulnerability in the Gulf cooperation council
- The impact of assuming perfect foresight when planning infrastructure in the water-energy-food nexus
News
- Science spotlights the J-WAFS-led FACT Alliance's Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability
- The Jameel Index for Food Trade and Vulnerability launches at World Food Prize
- J-WAFS awards seed grants to seven MIT projects in water and food
- J-WAFS researcher speaks at climate conference at the Vatican
- J-WAFS researcher Ken Strzepek explains how climate change impacts are responsible for many crises today
- New J-WAFS-led project, supported by Community Jameel, combats food insecurity
- MIT researchers advancing weather risk modeling in the face of changing weather extremes
- Climate Grand Challenges flagship projects include multiple J-WAFS PIs
- Multiple J-WAFS PIs chosen as MIT Climate Grand Challenges finalists
- J-WAFS PI’s models help decision makers advance food security