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Overview

Jennie Barron is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable focus on soil and water-related studies within these broad domains.

The scientist's main areas of work include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Jennie Barron has contributed to numerous publications, particularly in the subfields of Soil Science, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology. The frequent venues for their research publications include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Soil and Tillage Research
  • Water
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Geoderma

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "A framework for modelling soil structure dynamics induced by biological activity," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Estimating the global potential of water harvesting from successful case studies," 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • "Building climate resilience in degraded agricultural landscapes through water management: A case study of Bundelkhand region, Central India," 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • "An investigation in laser diffraction soil particle size distribution analysis to obtain compatible results with sieve and pipette method," 2022, Soil and Tillage Research
  • "The role of water in transforming food systems," 2022, Global Food Security

The scientist's frequent collaborators include Nicholas Jarvis, Louise Malmquist, Tobias Klöffel, Kaushal K. Garg, and Ramesh Singh, reflecting a broad collaborative network within their research areas.

Best Publications

  • Managing water in rainfed agriculture—The need for a paradigm shift

    Johan Rockström;Louise Karlberg;Suhas P. Wani;Jennie Barron

  • Dry spell analysis and maize yields for two semi-arid locations in East Africa

    Jennie Barron;Johan Rockström;Francis Gichuki;Nuhu Hatibu

  • Water productivity in rain-fed agriculture: challenges and opportunities for smallholder farmers in drought-prone tropical agroecosystems.

    J. Rockström;J. Barron;P. Fox;J. W. Kijne

  • Conservation farming strategies in East and Southern Africa: yields and rain water productivity from on-farm action research.

    Johan Rockström;P. Kaumbutho;J. Mwalley;A.W. Nzabi

  • Rainwater management for increased productivity among small-holder farmers in drought prone environments

    Johan Rockström;Jennie Barron;Patrick Fox

  • Water productivity in rainfed systems: overview of challenges and analysis of opportunities in water scarcity prone savannahs

    Johan Rockström;Jennie Barron

  • Managing water in rainfed agriculture

    J. Rockstrom;N. Hatibu;T. Y. Oweis;S. Wani

  • A social network approach to analyzing water governance: The case of the Mkindo catchment, Tanzania

    Christian Stein;Christian Stein;Henrik Ernstson;Jennie Barron;Jennie Barron

  • Risk analysis and economic viability of water harvesting for supplemental irrigation in semi-arid Burkina Faso and Kenya

    P. Fox;J. Rockström;J. Barron

  • Water Resilience for Human Prosperity

    Johan Rockström;Malin Falkenmark;Carl Folke;Mats Lannerstad

  • A review of trends, constraints and opportunities of smallholder irrigation in East Africa

    Prossie Nakawuka;Simon Langan;Petra Schmitter;Jennie Barron

  • Assessing impacts of agricultural water interventions in the Kothapally watershed, Southern India

    Kaushal K. Garg;Louise Karlberg;Jennie Barron;Suhas P. Wani

  • A framework for modelling soil structure dynamics induced by biological activity

    Katharina Meurer;Jennie Barron;Claire Chenu;Elsa Coucheney

  • Run-off water harvesting for dry spell mitigation in maize (Zea mays L.): results from on-farm research in semi-arid Kenya

    Jennie Barron;George Okwach

  • Seasonal rainfall partitioning under runon and runoff conditions on sandy soil in Niger. On-farm measurements and water balance modelling

    J. Rockström;P.-E. Jansson;J. Barron

  • Monitoring and evaluation of climate resilience for agricultural development: a review of currently available tools

    Sabine Douxchamps;Liza Debevec;Meredith A. Giordano;Jennie Barron

  • Rainwater harvesting : a lifeline for human well-being.

    Jennie Barron

  • Dry spell mitigation to upgrade semi-arid rainfed agriculture : Water harvesting and soil nutrient management for smallholder maize cultivation in Machakos, Kenya

    Jennie Barron

  • On-farm spatial and temporal variability of soil and water in pearl millet cultivation

    Johan Rockström;Jennie Barron;Joost Brouwer;Sylvie Galle

  • Suitability mapping framework for solar photovoltaic pumps for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

    Petra Schmitter;Kefyalew S. Kibret;Kefyalew S. Kibret;Nicole Lefore;Jennie Barron

  • Ecosystems for water and food security

    E. Boelee;S. Atapattu;J. Barron;P. Bindraban

  • Managing water in rainfed agriculture

    Johan Rockström;Jennie Barron;Louise Karlberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre
Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Claudia Pahl-Wostl Osnabrück University
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Suhas P. Wani
Suhas P. Wani International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Simon J. Langan
Simon J. Langan International Water Management Institute
Mario Herrero
Mario Herrero Cornell University
Malin Falkenmark
Malin Falkenmark Stockholm University
Holger Hoff
Holger Hoff University of Graz
Tammo S. Steenhuis
Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University

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