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Scopus Author ID: 29068082700

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climate change, agriculture, food security, impacts, uncertainty, biodiversity, conservation, plant genetic resources

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International Center for Tropical Agriculture: Cali, Valle del Cauca, CO

2016-10-01 to present | Climate Impacts Scientist (Decision and Policy Analysis)
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Julian Ramirez-Villegas

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment: Leeds, Leeds, GB

2013-10-01 to 2016-10-01 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (School of Earth and Environment)
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Julian Ramirez-Villegas

Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture: Cali, Valle del Cauca, CO

2013-10-01 to 2016-10-01 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Decision and Policy Analysis)
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Julian Ramirez-Villegas

Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical: Cali, Valle del Cauca, CO

2009-01-15 to 2013-09-02 | Research Assistant (Decision and Policy Analysis)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment: Leeds, Leeds, GB

2010-10-01 to 2013-11-26 | PhD (School of Earth and Environment)
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Julian Ramirez-Villegas

Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede de Palmira: Palmira, Valle del Cauca, CO

2003-02-01 to 2008-06-01 | Agricultural Engineer (Engineering)
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Model‐based multi‐genotype characterization of drought stress Target Population of Environments for the common bean in East Africa

Crop Science
2025-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/csc2.21290
Contributors: Prakash Kumar Jha; Steve Beebe; Milan Urban; Jonatan Soto; Teshale Assefa; Julian Ramirez‐Villegas
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Enhanced policy adequacy facilitates national climate adaptation tracking across Africa

Nature Climate Change
2024-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02055-6
Contributors: Andreea C. Nowak; Lucy Njuguna; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Pytrik Reidsma; Krystal Crumpler; Todd S. Rosenstock
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Opportunities to strengthen Africa’s efforts to track national-level climate adaptation

Nature Climate Change
2024-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02054-7
Contributors: Andreea C. Nowak; Lucy Njuguna; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Pytrik Reidsma; Krystal Crumpler; Todd S. Rosenstock
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Daily bias-corrected weather data and daily simulated growth data of maize, millet, sorghum, and wheat in the changing climate of sub-Saharan Africa

Data in Brief
2024-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110455
Contributors: Seyyedmajid Alimagham; Marloes P. van Loon; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Herman N. C Berghuijs; Martin K. van Ittersum
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Decision support tools for agricultural adaptation in Africa

Nature Food
2024-03-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-00936-9
Contributors: Todd S. Rosenstock; Namita Joshi; Alcade C. Segnon; Laura Cramer; Caroline Mwongera; Andreea C. Nowak; Lucy Njuguna; Elliot R. Dossou-Yovo; Peter Steward; Julian Ramirez-Villegas
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Leverage points to support Africa’s efforts to track climate adaptation

2023-12-12 | Preprint
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3620277/v1
Contributors: Andreea Nowak; Lucy Njuguna; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Pytrik Reidsma; Krystal Crumpler; Todd Rosenstock
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Priority areas for investment in more sustainable and climate-resilient livestock systems

Nature Sustainability
2023-06-29 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-023-01161-1
Contributors: Camila Bonilla-Cedrez; Peter Steward; Todd S. Rosenstock; Philip Thornton; Jacobo Arango; Martin Kropff; Julian Ramirez-Villegas
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Defining interpretative communities towards climate change: Examining growers of common bean in Latin America

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
2022-07-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2021.1936419
Contributors: Andrew P. Barnes; Hernan Botero; Lisset Pérez; David Ríos-Segura; Julian Ramirez-Villegas
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State of ex situ conservation of landrace groups of 25 major crops

Nature Plants
2022-05-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-022-01144-8
Contributors: Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Colin K. Khoury; Harold A. Achicanoy; Maria Victoria Diaz; Andres C. Mendez; Chrystian C. Sosa; Zakaria Kehel; Luigi Guarino; Michael Abberton; Jorrel Aunario et al.
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Classifying climate change perceptions of bean breeders in Santander-Colombia

Climate and Development
2021-09-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2020.1848782
Contributors: Hernan Botero; Andrew Barnes; Lisset Perez; David Rios; Julian Ramirez-Villegas
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GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information

Ecography
2021-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05430
Contributors: Daniel Carver; Chrystian C. Sosa; Colin K. Khoury; Harold A. Achicanoy; Maria Victoria Diaz; Steven Sotelo; Nora P. Castañeda‐Álvarez; Julian Ramirez‐Villegas
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Determinants of vulnerability of bean growing households to climate variability in Colombia

Climate and Development
2020-09-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2019.1685931
Contributors: Lisset Perez; David A. Rios; Diana C. Giraldo; Jennifer Twyman; Genowefa Blundo-Canto; Steven D. Prager; Julian Ramirez-Villegas
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A gap analysis modelling framework to prioritize collecting for ex situ conservation of crop landraces

Diversity and Distributions
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13046
Contributors: Julian Ramirez‐Villegas; Colin K. Khoury; Harold A. Achicanoy; Andres C. Mendez; Maria Victoria Diaz; Chrystian C. Sosa; Daniel G. Debouck; Zakaria Kehel; Luigi Guarino; Martin Jung
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Importance of genetic parameters and uncertainty of MANIHOT, a new mechanistic cassava simulation model

European Journal of Agronomy
2020-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2020.126031
Contributors: Leidy Patricia Moreno-Cadena; Gerrit Hoogenboom; Myles James Fisher; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Steven Dean Prager; Luis Augusto Becerra Lopez-Lavalle; Pieter Pypers; Maria Sara Mejia de Tafur; Daniel Wallach; Rafael Muñoz-Carpena et al.
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CGIAR modeling approaches for resource‐constrained scenarios: I. Accelerating crop breeding for a changing climate

Crop Science
2020-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/csc2.20048
Contributors: Julian Ramirez‐Villegas; Anabel Molero Milan; Nickolai Alexandrov; Senthold Asseng; Andrew J. Challinor; Jose Crossa; Fred van Eeuwijk; Michel Edmond Ghanem; Cecile Grenier; Alexandre B. Heinemann et al.
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Vietnam and Indonesia daily climate data (precipitation and temperature) per sub-geographical units 2000-2018

2020-01-22 | Dataset
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/2LRIOU
Contributors: Achicanoy, Harold; Mora, Brayan; Ramirez Villegas, Julian; Prager, Steven D.
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High-resolution and bias-corrected CMIP5 projections for climate change impact assessments

Scientific Data
2020-01-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0343-8
Contributors: Carlos Navarro-Racines; Jaime Tarapues; Philip Thornton; Andy Jarvis; Julian Ramirez-Villegas
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CCAFS-CMIP5 Delta Method Downscaling for monthly averages and bioclimatic indices of four RCPs

2019-07-21 | Dataset
DOI: 10.26050/WDCC/CCAFS-CMIP5_downscaling
Contributors: Navarro-Racines, Carlos E.; Tarapues Montenegro, Jaime Eduardo; Thornton, Philip; Jarvis, Andy; Ramirez Villegas, Julian
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Emergence of robust precipitation changes across crop production areas in the 21st century

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2019-04-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811463116
Contributors: Maisa Rojas; Fabrice Lambert; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Andrew J. Challinor
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Data for the calculation of an indicator of the comprehensiveness of conservation of useful wild plants

2018-12-04 | Dataset
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/2jxj4k32m2.1
Contributors: Khoury, Colin K.; Amariles, Daniel; Soto, Jonatan Stivens; Diaz, Maria Victoria; Sotelo, Steven; Sosa, Chrystian C.; Ramirez Villegas, Julian; Achicanoy, Harold A; Castaneda-Alvarez, Nora P.; Leon, Blanca et al.
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Data for the calculation of an indicator of the comprehensiveness of conservation of useful wild plants

2018-12-04 | Dataset
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.11.125
Contributors: Khoury, Colin K.; Amariles, Daniel; Soto, Jonatan Stivens; Diaz, Maria Victoria; Sotelo, Steven; Sosa, Chrystian C.; Ramirez Villegas, Julian; Achicanoy, Harol A.; Castaneda-Alvarez, Nora P.; Leon, Blanca et al.
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Reduction in nutritional quality and growing area suitability of common bean under climate change induced drought stress in Africa

Scientific Reports
2018-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33952-4
Contributors: Marijke Hummel; Brendan F. Hallahan; Galina Brychkova; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Veronica Guwela; Bartholomew Chataika; Edna Curley; Peter C. McKeown; Liam Morrison; Elise F. Talsma et al.
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Determinants of vulnerability of bean growing households to climate variability in Colombia

2018-10-10 | Dataset
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/E5UYJE
Contributors: Perez, Lisset; Rios, David; Giraldo, Diana; Twyman, Jennifer; Blundo Canto, Genowefa; Prager, Steven D.; Ramirez Villegas, Julian
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Breeding implications of drought stress under future climate for upland rice in Brazil

Global Change Biology
2018-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14071
Contributors: Julian Ramirez‐Villegas; Alexandre B. Heinemann; Adriano Pereira de Castro; Flávio Breseghello; Carlos Navarro‐Racines; Tao Li; Maria C. Rebolledo; Andrew J. Challinor
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Improvement of spatial modelling of crop suitability using a new digital soil map of Tanzania

2017 | Journal article | Author
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02571862.2017.1281447
Contributors: Kristin Persson; Leigh Ann Winowiecki; Vagen, Tor-Gunnar; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Mats Söderström
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Improving the use of crop models for risk assessment and climate change adaptation

2017 | Journal article | Author
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2017.07.010
Contributors: Andrew Challinor; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Whitfield, Stephen; Vanuytrecht, Eline; Wallach, Daniel; Nicklin, Kathryn Jane; Deva, Chetan; Asseng, S.; Muller, Christoph; Koehler, Ann-Kristin
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500m gridded surfaces for changes in climate suitability for coffee production in Risaralda, Colombia

2017-12-15 | Dataset
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/FEEHQX
Contributors: Vallejo Arango, Eliana; Navarro Racines, Carlos E.; Ramirez Villegas, Julian; Aguilar Ariza, Andres; Delerce, Sylvain Jean
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500m gridded historical and future climate surfaces for Risaralda, Colombia

2017-12-04 | Dataset
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GIQMCI
Contributors: Navarro Racines, Carlos; Vallejo-Arango, Eliana; Ramirez Villegas, Julian
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Assessing uncertainty and complexity in regional-scale crop model simulations

European Journal of Agronomy
2017-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.eja.2015.11.021
Contributors: Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Ann-Kristin Koehler; Andrew J. Challinor
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How accurately do maize crop models simulate the interactions of atmospheric CO2 concentration levels with limited water supply on water use and yield?

2017-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2017.01.002
Contributors: Durand, Jean-Louis; Kersebaum, Kurt-Christian; Kim, Soo-Hyung; Muller, Christoph; Nendel, Claas; Olioso, Albert; Priesack, Eckart; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Ripoche, Dominique; Rotter, Reimund P. et al.
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Potential negative consequences of geoengineering on crop production: A study of Indian groundnut

Geophysical Research Letters
2016-11-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071209
Contributors: Huiyi Yang; Steven Dobbie; Julian Ramirez‐Villegas; Kuishuang Feng; Andrew J. Challinor; Bing Chen; Yao Gao; Lindsay Lee; Yan Yin; Laixiang Sun et al.
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Current warming will reduce yields unless maize breeding and seed systems adapt immediately

Nature Climate Change
2016-10-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3061
Contributors: A. J. Challinor; A.-K. Koehler; J. Ramirez-Villegas; S. Whitfield; B. Das
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Towards a genotypic adaptation strategy for Indian groundnut cultivation using an ensemble of crop simulations

Climatic Change
2016-09-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-016-1717-y
Contributors: Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Andrew J. Challinor
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Timescales of transformational climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan African agriculture

Nature Climate Change
2016-06-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2947
Contributors: Ulrike Rippke; Julian Ramirez-Villegas; Andy Jarvis; Sonja J. Vermeulen; Louis Parker; Flora Mer; Bernd Diekkrüger; Andrew J. Challinor; Mark Howden
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Replication Data for: Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security

2015-07-21 | Dataset
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/HYOWIC
Contributors: Khoury, Colin K; Bjorkman, Anne D; Dempewolf, Hannes; Ramirez Villegas, Julian; Guarino, Luigi; Jarvis, Andy; Rieseberg, Loren H; Struik, Paul C
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Replication Data for: Crop wild relatives of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.]: Distributions, ex situ conservation status, and potential genetic resources for abiotic stress tolerance

2015-07-20 | Dataset
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/GU5AJW
Contributors: Khoury, Colin K; Castañeda Álvarez, Nora P; Achicanoy, Harold A; Sosa, Chrystian C; Bernau, Vivian; Kassa, Mulualem T; Norton, Sally L; Van Der Maesen, Jos G; Upadhyaya, Hari D; Ramirez Villegas, Julian et al.
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Crop yield response to climate change varies with cropping intensity

Global Change Biology
2015-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12808
Contributors: Andrew J. Challinor; Ben Parkes; Julian Ramirez‐Villegas
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Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security

2014 | Journal article
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10.1073/pnas.1313490111

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2-s2.0-84896515262
Contributors: Khoury, C.K.; Bjorkman, A.D.; Dempewolf, H.; Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Guarino, L.; Jarvis, A.; Rieseberg, L.H.; Struik, P.C.
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Using species distributions models for designing conservation strategies of Tropical Andean biodiversity under climate change

2014 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.jnc.2014.03.007

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2-s2.0-84899773704
Contributors: Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Cuesta, F.; Devenish, C.; Peralvo, M.; Jarvis, A.; Arnillas, C.A.
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Analysis of threats to South American flora and its implications for conservation

2014-05-02 | Dataset
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/25646
Contributors: Ramirez Villegas, Julian; Jarvis, Andy; Touval, Jerome
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Assessing relevant climate data for agricultural applications

2014-04-30 | Dataset
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/25626
Contributors: Ramirez Villegas, Julian; Challinor, Andrew J
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Addressing uncertainty in adaptation planning for agriculture

2013 | Journal article
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10.1073/pnas.1219441110

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2-s2.0-84878142454
Contributors: Vermeulen, S.J.; Challinor, A.J.; Thornton, P.K.; Campbell, B.M.; Eriyagama, N.; Vervoort, J.M.; Kinyangi, J.; Jarvis, A.; Läderach, P.; Ramirez-Villegas, J. et al.
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Drought Tolerance in Wild Plant Populations: The Case of Common Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1371/journal.pone.0062898

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2-s2.0-84877051303
Contributors: Cortés, A.J.; Monserrate, F.A.; Ramírez-Villegas, J.; Madriñán, S.; Blair, M.W.
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Empirical approaches for assessing impacts of climate change on agriculture: The EcoCrop model and a case study with grain sorghum

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.09.005

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2-s2.0-84872918107
Contributors: Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Jarvis, A.; Läderach, P.
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Implications of regional improvement in global climate models for agricultural impact research

2013 | Journal article
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10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024018

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2-s2.0-84880859450
Contributors: Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Challinor, A.J.; Thornton, P.K.; Jarvis, A.
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Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss

2013 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1038/nclimate1887

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2-s2.0-84879777383
Contributors: Warren, R.; Vanderwal, J.; Price, J.; Welbergen, J.A.; Atkinson, I.; Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Osborn, T.J.; Jarvis, A.; Shoo, L.P.; Williams, S.E. et al.
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Reconciling approaches to climate change adaptation for Colombian agriculture

2013 | Journal article
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10.1007/s10584-013-0792-6

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2-s2.0-84880572436
Contributors: Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Khoury, C.K.
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A way forward on adaptation to climate change in Colombian agriculture: Perspectives towards 2050

2012 | Journal article
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10.1007/s10584-012-0500-y

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2-s2.0-84868685282
Contributors: Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Salazar, M.; Jarvis, A.; Navarro-Racines, C.E.
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Analysis of threats to South American flora and its implications for conservation

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.jnc.2012.07.006

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2-s2.0-84868383381
Contributors: Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Jarvis, A.; Touval, J.
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Assessing relevant climate data for agricultural applications

2012 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.03.015

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2-s2.0-84859639873
Contributors: Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Challinor, A.
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