LCLUCers in Media

Jefferson Fox East-West Center	Southeast Asia remains world rice bowl as pockets of region suffer crop disasters November 23, 2022 Rice crops in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have taken a hit from flooding and conflict this year, casting a shadow on a mostly sunny outlook for Southeast Asia’s output of the...
Jefferson Fox East-West Center	How Nepal Grew Back Its Forests - NYTimes November 14, 2022 A study led by LCLUC PI Dr. Jefferson Fox (East West Center) and his team was featured in the New York Times. Nepal is showing results after decades of effort, a rare...
Matthew Fagan University of Maryland Baltimore County	Vast tropical tree farms push into biodiversity hotspots October 31, 2022 Much of the tree growth in the tropics in the first decade of the century consists of plantations — not natural forest. The LCLUC...
Matthew Fagan University of Maryland Baltimore County	Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated September 13, 2022 Recent publication on pantropical plantation expansion by LCLUCer Mathew Fagan got Media coverage in Mongabay. Highlights ...
Sergii Skakun University of Maryland	Measuring War’s Effect On A Global Breadbasket July 6, 2022 For more than a decade, Becker-Reshef , Sergii Skakun and other NASA-funded scientists have been developing innovative satellite-based techniques to monitor commodity crops...
Sergii Skakun University of Maryland	Russian Attack on Ukraine Also Targeted Global Food Supply - Maryland Today March 23, 2022 Wheat prices in various markets spiked about 70% soon after last month’s outbreak of war in the region, a key supplier of grains and other commodities to the international...