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Marshall Burke

Research Associate

Program on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

Research Interests
Agricultural development; Climate effects on food security

Marshall holds a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford. He is currently earning his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley.

Publications

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Warming increases risk of civil war in Africa
Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, John Dykema, David Lobell
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2009)
Shifts in African crop climates by 2050, and the implications for crop improvement and genetic resources conservation
Marshall Burke, David Lobell, Luigi Guarino
Global Environmental Change (2009)
Why are agricultural impacts of climate change so uncertain? The importance of temperature relative to precipitation
David Lobell, Marshall Burke
Environmental Research Letters vol. 3 (2008)
A Global Model Tracking Water, Nitrogen, and Land Inputs and Virtual Transfers from Industrialized Meat Production and Trade
Marshall Burke, Kirsten Oleson, Ellen McCullough, Joanne Gaskell
Environmental Modeling and Assessment (2008)
Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptation Needs for Food Security in 2030
David Lobell, Marshall Burke, Claudia Tebaldi, Michael D. Mastrandrea, Walter P. Falcon, Rosamond L. Naylor
Science vol. 319 (2008)

Research Programs & Projects

Recent Commentary

News around the web

Climate 'is a major cause' of conflict in Africa
... even of half a degree (Celsius) or so," research leader Marshall Burke, from the University of California at Berkeley, told BBC News.
November 24, 2009 in BBC News

Climate Change Could Boost Incidence of Civil War in Africa
... the two," said Marshall Burke, the study's lead author and a graduate student at UC Berkeley's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
November 24, 2009 in Science Daily (press release)

Climate change threatens African civil war
Commenting on the findings, the study's lead author Marshall Burke, from the UC Berkeley, said: "Despite recent high-level statements suggesting that ...
November 24, 2009 in InTheNews.co.uk

Global warming will increase likelihood of civil war in Africa by 55 percent
... climate," explains Marshall Burke, the study's lead author and a graduate student at the UC Berkley's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
November 23, 2009 in Mongabay.com