Profile

Trained in soil science, John Ingram gained extensive experience in the 1980s working in Africa and Asia in agriculture and forestry research projects. In 1991 John was recruited by NERC to help organise, coordinate and synthesise research on global change and agroecology, part of IGBP’s international global change research programme. In 2001 he was appointed the Executive Officer for the international research project "Global Environmental Change and Food Systems" (GECAFS), then based in NERC’s CEH Wallingford site. The GECAFS International Project Office was relocated to ECI in October 2006. On the close of GECAFS in 2011 he was appointed NERC Food Security Leader until assuming his current role at the ECI in May 2013.

Current activities

Developing and promoting ECI's food systems research programme.

Selected publications

2013

• Palsson, G., Szerszynski, B., Sörlin, S., Marks, J., Avril, B., Crumley, C., Hackmann, H., Holm, P., Ingram, J.S.I., Kirman, A., Buendía, M.P. and Weehuizen, R. (2013) Reconceptualizing the ‘Anthropos’ in the Anthropocene: Integrating the social sciences and humanities in global environmental change research. Environmental Science and Policy, 28: 3-13.

2012

• Ignaciuk, A., Rice, M., Bogardi, J., Canadell, J., Dhakal, S., Ingram, J., Leemans, R. and Rosenber, M. (2012) Responding to complex societal challenges: A decade of Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) interdisciplinary research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4(1): 147-158.
• Misselhorn, A., Aggarwal, P.K., Ericksen, P.J., Gregory, P.J., Horn-Phathanothai, L., Ingram, J.S.I. and Wiebe, K. (2012) A vision for attaining food security. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4: 7-17.
• Vermeulen, S.J., Campbell, B.M. and Ingram, J.S.I. (2012) Climate change and food systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37: 195-222.
• Victoria, R., Banwart, S., Black, H., Ingram, J.S.I., Joosten, H., Milne, E. and Noellemeyer, E. (2012) The Benefits of Soil Carbon. In, UNEP Year Book – Emerging Issues in our Global Environment 2012. . pp. 19-33.

2011

• Drimie, S., Arntzen, J., Dube, P., Ingram, J.S.I., Mano, R.T., Mataya, C., Muchero, M.T., Vhurumuku, E. and Ziervogel, G. (2011) Global environmental change and food systems in southern Africa: the dynamic challenges facing regional policy. Journal of Geography and Regional Planning, 4(4): 169-182.
• Ingram, J.S.I. (2011) A food systems approach to researching interactions between food security and global environmental change. Food Security, 3: 417-431.
• Ingram, J.S.I. (2011) From Food Production to Food Security: Developing interdisciplinary, regional-level research. Wageningen University 152 pp. ISBN: 978-94-6173-002-2.
• Vermeulen, S.J., Aggarwal, P.K., Ainslie, A., Angelone, C., Campbell, B.M., Challinor, A.J., Hansen, J.W., Ingram, J.S.I., Jarvis, A., Kristjanson, P., Lau, C., Nelson, G.C., Thornton, P.K. and Wollenberg, E. (2011) Options for support to agriculture and food security under climate change. Environmental Science and Policy, 15: 136-144.

2010

• Ericksen, P.J., Stewart, B., Dixon, J., Barling, D., Loring, P., Anderson, M. and Ingram, J.S.I. (2010) The value of a food system approach. In, Ingram, J.S.I., Ericksen, P.J. and Liverman, D. (eds.) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan, London.
• Ingram, J. and Izac, A. (2010) Undertaking research at the regional level. In, Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and Liverman, D. (eds.) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan. 352 pp. ISBN: 9781849711289.
• Ingram, J. and Kapadia, K. (2010) Stakeholders' approaches to regional food security research. In, Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and Liverman, D. (eds.) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan. 352 pp. ISBN: 9781849711289.
• Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and Liverman, D. (2010) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan. pp. 352. ISBN: 9781849711289.
• Ingram, J., Holmes, J., Andersson, J., Giller, K., Bammer, G., Brown, M., Henrichs, T., Jones, J.W., Schilpzand, R., Schuttelaar and Partners and Young, J. (2010) Engaging stakeholders at the regional level. In, Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and Liverman, D. (eds.) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan. 352 pp. ISBN: Earthscan.
• Liverman, D. and Ingram, J. (2010) Why regions? In, Ingram, J., Ericksen, P. and Liverman, D. (eds.) Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan. 352 pp. ISBN: 9781849711289.

2009

• Ericksen, P.J., Ingram, J.S. and Liverman, D.M. (2009) Food security and global environmental change: emerging challenges. Environmental Science and Policy, 12(4): 373-377.
• Ericksen, P.J., Ingram, J.S.I. and Liverman, D. (2009) Food Security and Environmental Change. Environmental Science and Policy, 12(4). Special issue.
• Gregory, P.J., Johnson, S.N., Newton, A.C. and Ingram, J.S.I. (2009) Integrating pests and pathogens into the climate change/food security debate. The Journal of Experimental Botany, 60: 2827-2838.
• Ingram, J.S.I. (2009) Food system concepts. In, Rabbinge, R. and Linneman, A. (eds.) ESF/COST Forward Look on European Food Systems in a Changing World. European Science Foundation, Strasbourg.
• Leemans, R., Asrar, G., Busalacchi, A., Canadell, J., Ingram, J., Larigauderie, A., Mooney, H., Nobre, C., Patwardhan, A., Rice, M., Schmidt, F., Seitzinger, S., Virji, H., Vorosmarty, C. and Young, O. (2009) Developing a common strategy for integrative global environmental change research and outreach: the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 1: 1-10.

2008

• Gregory, P.J. and Ingram, J.S.I. (2008) Climate Change and the current “Food Crisis”. CAB Reviews: Perspectives in Agriculture, Veterinary Sciences, Nutrition and Natural Resources, 3(99): 1-10.
• Ingram, J.S.I., Gregory, P.J. and Izac, A.M. (2008) The role of agronomic research in climate change and food security policy. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 126(1): 4-12.

2007

• Ingram, J., Stone, J., Confalonieri, U., Garvin, T., Jutro, P. R., Clink, C. A., Luckman, B. H., Noellemeyer, E. and Toledo, P. M. (2007) Delivering Global Environmental Change Science to the Policy Process. In, Tiessen, H. and Brklacich, M. and Breulmann, G. and Menezes, R. (eds.) Communicating global change science to society: an assessment and case studies. Island Press. pp. 35-44. ISBN: 9781597261777.

2006

• Ingram, J.S.I. (eds.) (2006) GECAFS Southern Africa Science Plan and Implementation Strategy. GECAFS Report 3.. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Wallingford, UK. 38 pp.
• Ingram, J.S.I. and Brklacich, M. (2006) Global environmental change and food systems. Earth System Science in the Anthroposcene. Springer-Verlag, Berlin: 217-228.

2005

• Gregory, P.J., Ingram, J.S.I. and Brklacich, M. (2005) Climate change and food security. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 360(1463): 2139-2148.
• Ingram, J.S.I., Gregory, P.J. and Brklacich, M. (eds.) (2005) GECAFS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy. ESSP Report 2.. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Wallingford, UK. 36 pp.

2004

• Aggarwal, P.K., Joshi, P.K., Ingram, J.S.I. and Gupta, R.K. (2004) Adapting Food Systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains to Global Environmental Change: Key Information Needs to Improve Policy Formulation. Environmental Science and Policy, 7: 487-498.

2001

• Ingram, J.S.I., Fernandes, E.C.M. (2001) Managing carbon sequestration in soils: concepts and terminology. Agriculture, ecosystems and environment, 87(1): 111-117.

2000

• Gregory, P.J. and Ingram, J.S.I (2000) Food and Forestry: Global Change and Global Challenges. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment (Special Issue)(82): 1-394.
• Gregory, P.J. and Ingram, J.S.I. (2000) Global change and food and forest production: future scientific challenges. Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 82(1-3): 3-14.

1998

• Ingram, J. and WALL FRECKMAN, D. (1998) Soil biota and global changePreface. Global Change Biology, 4(7): 699-701.
• Sutherst, R.W., Ingram, J.S.I. and Scherm, H. (1998) Global change and vector-borne diseases. Parasitology Today, 14(8): 297-299.
• Young, I.M., Blanchart, E., Chenu, C., Dangerfield, M., Fragoso, C., Grimaldi, M., Ingram, J. and Monrozier, L.J. (1998) The interaction of soil biota and soil structure under global change. Global Change Biology, 4(7): 703-712.

1997

• No publications listed.

1996

• No publications listed.

1995

• No publications listed.

1993

• No publications listed.