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14
May

OECD uses DSSAT model for climate-smart agriculture strategies

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) used IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) modeling framework, which incorporated DSSAT-estimated crop productivity change scenarios, to create sophisticated projections of agricultural commodities and trade.

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04
May

Announcing the 3rd DSSAT Development Sprint Workshop | Maricopa, Arizona, in June 15-19, 2015

Following successes in the previous workshops, the 3rd DSSAT Development Sprint Workshop 2015 will be held at the Maricopa Agricultural Center (MAC) of the University of Arizona (Google Maps) in June 15-19.

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30
Mar

ICRISAT holds International Training Program on DSSAT at Headquarters

Five-day DSSAT training program was coordinated by the Learning Systems Unit (LSU) of the Knowledge Sharing and Innovation (KSI) at ICRISAT HQ in Hyderabad, India. Thirty participants of various disciplinary background from partner institutions in India and Africa attended the training program, held from 23rd to 27th March, 2015.

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05
Dec

Presentations from the DC DSSAT User Group Meeting (Dec 4, 2014)

The 1st DC DSSAT User Group Meeting was successfully held at IFPRI on December 4th, 2014. About 30 participants shared their DSSAT stories and research/applications where DSSAT plays a key role.

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04
Dec

The 2nd DSSAT Development Sprint Workshop 2014

Once again, as the new version of DSSAT is getting really-close to the public release, the core DSSAT developers gathered together at IFPRI HQ in Washington, DC, for a week-long Development Sprint workshop, second such event in 2014.

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13
Nov

DSSAT Perturb Tool

CLIMsystems announced a new tool called DSSAT Perturb, which generates climate projection data files for use with DSSAT.

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07
Nov

Washington, DC – DSSAT User Group Meeting on December 4, 2014

Dear DSSAT users in Washington, DC-area – On December 4th, come to the DC DSSAT User Group meeting and mingle with the core developers of DSSAT. Hear from the DSSAT insiders about what’s new and what’s coming. You will have chances to also share how you use DSSAT and what’s your wishlist items.

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07
Nov

Meeting Note from Long Beach, CA: Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems 2014

It was great catching up with you, fellow crop modelers at the Open Forum! Here is the meeting note for those of you who couldn’t join us. Hope to see you all again at the next forum in 2015!

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20
Oct

Guess how many DSSAT users are in the world: 5,000 (and counting)!

On October 19th, 2014, the total number of unique (since some users requested multiple times) DSSAT v4.5 download requests surpassed 5,000 – another new big milestone showing the worldwide interest in DSSAT and its strong community! Cumulative number of download requests by quarter shows almost linear, continuous increase of DSSAT users since its public release […]

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02
Sep

DSSAT Foundation Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems 2014

The DSSAT Foundation will be sponsoring the annual Open Forum on Crop Modeling and Decision Support Systems during this year’s ASA-CSSA-SSSA 2014 Annual Meetings. The forum is an informal discussion about crop modeling and decision support systems and open to anyone.

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