Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture across Southeast Asia

DSSAT crop modeling of future rice yield in Vietnam under climate change, Singapore-MIT Alliance project.

Study the link of future climate changes and its impacts rice crop productivity over Vietnam. The study applied climate outputs at high resolution from a regional climate model (i.e., WRF) as inputs to the DSSAT crop modelling system. Projected future rice yield and food security risk map are simulated and generated.

Please refer to Jiang, Z., Raghavan, S. V., Hur, J., Sun, Y., Liong, S.-Y., Nguyen, V. Q., & Van Pham Dang, T. (2019). “Future changes in rice yields over the Mekong River Delta due to climate change-Alarming or alerting?” Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 137(1), 545-555. link

Development of index-based drought insurance for sovereign disaster risk transfer, World Bank project.

Examine the usability of rainfall and temperature outputs of a regional climate model (RCM) and meteorological drought indices to develop a macro-level risk transfer product to compensate the government of Central Java, Indonesia, for drought-related disaster payments to rice farmers.

Please refer to Hohl, R., Jiang, Z., Tue Vu, M., Raghavan, S. V., & Liong, S.-Y. (2020). “Using a regional climate model to develop index-based drought insurance for sovereign disaster risk transfer.” Agricultural Finance Review. 81(1), 151-168. link