1. ELISABETH SIMELTON, PhD
Climate Change Scientist
Email: e.simelton@cgiar.org
Skype: simelton
Education
 PhD Geography
 MSc Geography
 BA International Education
Professional roles & skills
 Lecturer, thesis supervision, workshop organiser,
facilitator
 Research design, participatory methods, statistical
analysis of biophysical and socioeconomic data
 Science and popular science writing
 Technical advisor (food security, climate-smart
agriculture East - Southeast Asia)
 Project manager, resource mobilisation
Publications
Over 35 peer-reviewed publications and 1100+ citations (Google Scholar citations, June 2016)
Zhang T, T Li , X Yang, E Simelton 2016. Model biases in rice phenology under warmer climates. Nature Scientific Reports 6. doi
10.1038/srep27355
Simelton E 2016 Chapter on extension FAO Global Alliance on Climate-Smart Agriculture. FAO Roma, Italy
Duong MT, E Simelton, HV Le 2016. Participatory identification of climate-smart agriculture priorities. CCAFS Working Paper No
175. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Simelton, E, VB Dam, D Catacutan 2015. Trees and agroforestry for coping with extreme weather events - experiences from
northern and central Viet Nam. Agroforestry Systems 89(6): 1065-1082
Simelton, E, VB Dam 2014. Farmers in NE Viet Nam rank values of ecosystems from seven land uses. Ecosystem Services 9:133-
138
Simelton, E, VB Dam, R Finlayson, R Lasco 2013. The talking toolkit: how smallholding farmers and local governments can
together adapt to climate change. World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Hanoi, Viet Nam
Simelton, E, CH Quinn, N Batisani, A Dougill, J Dyer, EDG Fraser, D Mkwambisi, S Salluh, L Stringer 2013. Is rainfall really
changing? Farmers’ perceptions, meteorological data, and policy implications. Climate and Development 5(2):123-138
Simelton, E, EDG Fraser, M Termansen, SN Gosling, A South, N Arnell, T Benton, A Challinor, A Dougill, P Forster 2012. Climate
adaptability, crop failure, and food security: A statistical analysis of the socio-economic factors that make grain crops
vulnerable to drought using national scale data. Food Security 4(2),163-179
Ravera, F, D Tarrason, E Simelton 2011. Envisioning adaptive strategies to change: participatory scenarios for agro-pastoral
semi-arid systems in Nicaragua. Ecology and Society 16(1):20
Simelton, E 2011. Food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China. Food Security 3(1):35-52
Simelton, E 2010. Don’t we all want good weather and cheap food? In: J Dodson (Ed.). Changing Climates, Earth Systems and
Society. International Year of Planet Earth. Springer
Misselhorn, A, S Devereux, H Eakin, S Drimie, S Msangi, E Simelton, M Stafford Smith 2010. Vulnerability to what? In: Ericksen P
& J Ingram (Eds). Global Environmental Change and Food Security. Earthscan
Challinor, AJ, F Ewert, S Arnold, E Simelton, EDG Fraser 2009. Crops and climate change: progress, trends and challenges in
simulating impacts and adaptation. Journal of Experimental Botany 60(10):2775-2789
Úbeda, X, S Bernia, E Simelton 2005. The long-term effects on soil properties from a forest fire of varying intensity in a
Mediterranean environment. In: C Garcia and RJ Batalla (Eds): Catchment Dynamics and River Processes 7. Mediterannean
and other climate regions. Elsevier
Career
2010 - Present
Climate Change Scientist, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF),
Vietnam
2007 - 2010
Post-Doc Research Assistant, University of Leeds, UK
2002 - 2007
PhD candidate/lecturer, Goteborg University, Sweden
China Meteorological Administration, China
2000 - 2001
Project co-manager, Novgorod, Russia
1998 - 2000
Agriculture Extension Specialist, UNDP, Vietnam
1987 - 1992
Settlor of agriculture claims, Agria Ag Insurances, Sweden
Research interests
 Environmental change and spatiotemporal interactions :
natural hazard - climate change impacts and adaptation -
land use – sustainable resource use - food security
 Innovative (rural & urban) farming systems
 Agro-climate information systems
 Advancing methodology and tools for interdisciplinary
research communication, mixed methods