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 School of Geography and the Environment

John Ingram

John Ingram

Position:

NERC Food Security Leader

Contact:

e: john.ingram@eci.ox.ac.uk
t: 01865 285175

Member:

ECI Climate Research Theme

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.

Current activities

Raising NERC’s profile in the food-security research sector at national and international levels, synthesising and championing relevant NERC science..

Selected publications

  • Ingram JSI, PJ Ericksen and DM Liverman (Eds). 2010. Food Security and Global Environmental Change. Earthscan, London. 361pp.
  • Ericksen PJ, JSI Ingram and DM Liverman. 2009. Food Security and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Challenges. Environmental Science and Policy 12, 373-377.
  • Ericksen, P.J., J.S.I.Ingram, D. Liverman (eds) 2009. Special issue of Environmental Science and Policy on "Food Security and Environmental Change" 12(4).
  • Ingram JSI, PJ Gregory and A-M Izac. 2007. The role of agronomic research in climate change and food security policy in the developing world. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.
  • Ingram JSI and M Brklacich. 2006. Global Environmental Change and Food Systems. pp 217-228. In: E Ehlers and T Krafft (Eds) Earth System Science in the Anthroposcene. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Ingram JSI et al. 2006. GECAFS Southern Africa Science Plan and Implementation Strategy. GECAFS Report 3. 38 pp. Wallingford.
  • Gregory PJ, JSI Ingram and M Brklacich. 2005. Climate Change and Food Security. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 360, 2139–2148.
  • Ingram JSI, Gregory PJ and Brklacich, M. (Eds). 2005. GECAFS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy. ESSP Report 2. 36 pp. Wallingford.
  • Ingram JSI and ECM Fernandes. 2001. Managing Carbon Sequestration in Soils: A Note on Concepts and Terminology. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 87, 111-117.
  • Gregory PJ and JSI Ingram. 2000. Global change and food and forestry production: future scientific challenges. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 82, 3-14.
  • Gregory PJ and JSI Ingram (Eds). 2000. Food and Forestry: Global Change and Global Challenges. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment Special Issue 82, 1-394.
  • Sutherst RW, JSI Ingram and H Scherm. 1998. Global Change and Vector-Borne Diseases. Parasitology Today 14, 297-299.
  • Ingram, JSI and Wall-Freckman D. 1998. Soil Biota and Global Change. Global Change Biology 4, 699-701.
  • Ingram JSI and DH Wall-Freckman (Eds). 1998. Global Change and Soil Biota. Global Change Biology Thematic Issue 4.
  • Ingram JSI. 1997. Food Security in the face of Global Change: the GCTE Rice Network as a framework for international collaborative research. Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (of Japan) 52, 759 - 768.
  • Anderson JM and JSI Ingram (Eds). 1996. Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility: A Handbook of Methods. CAB International, Wallingford. 221 pp.
  • Ingram JSI, J Lee and C Valentin. 1996. The GCTE Soil Erosion Network: A multi participatory research programme. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 51, 377-380.
  • Steffen WL and JSI Ingram. 1995. Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems: an initial integration. Journal of Biogeography 22, 165-174.