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28 results
2025
Incentive design to promote long-term adoption of sustainable practices by smallholder farmers in India
Y. Karen Zheng, Sloan School of Management
Affordable, accurate, detailed climate projections for climate-resilient agriculture in India
Sai Ravela, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Director of the MIT Earth Signals and Systems Group
Anamitra Saha, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Earth Signals and Systems Group
2024
National crop type maps of India using deep learning and street view imagery
Sherrie Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Data, Systems, and Society
Food security in Africa under a changing climate – Navigating the energy and agricultural transition to net zero
Jennifer Morris, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Energy Initiative
Adam Schlosser, Center for Global Change Science, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Kenneth Strzepek, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Global Change Science
The role of livestock in climate change: Holistic greenhouse gas assessments and implications for human diets
César Terrer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2023
Automated counting of migrating salmon for conservation and fisheries management in the Pacific Northwest
Sara Beery, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of AI and Decision Making, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Novel spectrofluorometer for online early detection of harmful algal blooms
Andrew J. Whittle, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fabio Duarte, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Senseable City Lab and MIT Center for Real Estate
2022
High-resolution plant water stress monitoring
César Terrer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cloud-based data applications for streamlining natural resource management
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Jameel Index for food trade and vulnerability
Greg Sixt, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
Kenneth Strzepek, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Global Change Science
2021
Impact of near-term climate change on water availability and food productivity in Africa
Elfatih Eltahir, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Improving smallholder farmers’ welfare with AI-driven technologies
Y. Karen Zheng, Sloan School of Management
Systems analytics for small farms animal waste resource recovery
Olivier de Weck, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Afreen Siddiqi, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2020
Smart porous hydrogels for atmospheric water harvesting
Xuanhe Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Developing flexible estimates of agricultural supply functions for answering demand-side agricultural questions
Dave Donaldson, Department of Economics
Sustainable agricultural planning for small farm holders in the Bist Doab region of Punjab
Saurabh Amin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ickkshaanshu Sonkar, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Reet K. Tiwari, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar
2019
Evaporative cooling technologies for fruit and vegetable preservation in Kenya
Daniel Frey, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leon Glicksman, Department of Architecture
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Designing supply chain platforms for smallholders in Indonesia
Joann de Zegher, Sloan School of Management
2018
Novel systems biology tools for improving crop tolerance to abiotic stressors
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Caroline Uhler, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute for Data, Systems and Society
Assessing climate vulnerability of West African food security using remote sensing observations
Dara Entekhabi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
What controls arsenic contamination in South Asia? Making sense of two-decades of disjointed data
Charles Harvey, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
