Funded Researchers
Staff
Kenneth Strzepek
- Climate, Water, and Food Specialist
- Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
- Center for Global Change Science
Kenneth Strzepek is a research scientist with MIT's Joint Program and the Center for Global Change Science. 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
- 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
- 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