John Ames

University of Hohenheim · Faculty of Agricultural Sciences

Launched by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in 2009, Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) has become prominent in many of the discussions on how to respond to the future challenges posed by population growth, climate change and food insecurity. Seeking to find synergies between mitigation, productivity and resilience to climate change, CSA r...

The global food system is facing severe challenges, and is predicted to face even greater challenges in the future, prompting calls for its transformation; in production, resource use efficiency and prevention of waste. Some of the food system drivers for, and risks from, climate change are discussed. A concept involving the production of Oat Milk...

The model for all projects, assembled in scenarios, and with incorporated Random Number Generator RNG codes. This can be viewed in Excel as it is, and is an executable Monte Carlo simulation in Crystal Ball. Sheet "RNG" are the codes displayed as text, and also some of the assumed values for the uncertain variables from which the distributions were...

Completed during an interactive and intellectually open course discussing the food system and ethics, with many expert speakers, as well as 19 other Masters students with expertise in their fields. We shared a common belief that the future looked grim, and we were all constantly feeling anxious about how we could really help. So far as I can see,...

Group Work - Four members, one week field work, remote group work to prepare for presentation in Wageningen, and then further remote group work to prepare this report. Undertaken as part of a Euro League Life Sciences (ELLS) Case Study Competition (CSC) project that took place over summer 2018 under the supervision of BOKU University, Vienna My r...

The Gran Canarian scincid lizard Chalcides sexlineatus displays marked within-island geographic variation in morphology along a latitudinal divide. The most probable cause of this effect was tested using statistical analysis (Analysis of Covariance, Principal Component Analysis, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation coefficients and Partial Correlatio...

Aposematism is the use of obvious signals (bright colours/visual mainly, but others described too) to warn predators that they are defended somehow (venom or poison, or generally unpalatable). There is a paradox as to how this trait can evolve, because the predators must learn not to eat them, leading to something of a chicken and egg situation bet...

Project using stochastic population modelling software (Vortex) to investigate the best way to safeguard a Giant Panda population. Data for uncertain variables sourced from multiple papers, and subjected to rigorous sensitivity testing. Using a Monte Carlo approach, demographic, environmental and genetic factors are varied between runs to form a fr...