Career summary

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Water food and poverty

1. Fisher, M.J. and Cook, S.E. (2011). Editors: Second Special Issue on Water, Food and Poverty. Cross-Basin analysis and synthesis. Water International 36.http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwin20/current

2. Simon Cook, Myles Fisher, Tassilo Tiemann and Alain Vidal 2011. Water, food and poverty: global- and basin-scale analysis. Water International. 36 (1): 1–16

3. Eric Kemp-Benedict, Simon Cook, Summer L. Allen, Steve Vosti, Jacques Lemoalle, Mark Giordano, John Ward and David Kaczan.  2011. Connections between poverty, water and agriculture: evidence from 10 river basins. Water International 36(1): 125–140.

4. Woolley, J., Cleveringa, R., Thapa, G., Cook, S.E., Harrington, L., Nepveu, A., Vidal, A. 2010. Re-engaging in smallholder small-scale irrigation to tackle poverty hotspots in Asia. Invited paper for the ADB Conference “Water: Crisis and Choices, Manila, 12-14 October 2010

5. Fisher, M.J. and Cook, S.E. (2010). Editors: Special Issue on Water, Food and Poverty. Basin analysis.  Water International 34. Special issue details here

6. Cook, S.E., Andersson, M.S. and Fisher, M.J. 2009. Assessing the importance of livestock water use in basins. The Rangeland Journal 31:195-205.

7. Cook, S.E., Fisher, M.J., Harrington, L.W., Huber-Lee, A. and Vidal, A. 2009. Agricultural water productivity and poverty: A conceptual pathway to link global, basin and local understanding. Irrig. and Drain. 58: S60-S72. 

8. Cook, S.E., Fisher, M.J., Andersson, M. Rubiano, J.E. and Giordano, M.. 2009. Poverty, agriculture and water. Water International. 34(1), 13-29.

9. Woolley, J., Cook, S.E., Molden, D. and Harrington, L. .2009.  Water, food and development: The CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food. Water International. 34(1), 4-12..

10. Harrington, L., Cook, S. Lemoalle, J. Kirby, J.M., Taylor, C.  and Woolley, J. . 2009. Cross-basin comparisons of water use, water scarcity and their impact on livelihoods: present and future. Water International. 34(1), 144-154.

11. Douthwaite B., Alvarez B.S., Cook S., Davies R., George P., Howell J., Mackay R., Rubiano J. (2007) Participatory impact pathways analysis: A practical application of program theory in Research-for-Development. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 22(2): 127-159

12. Castillo, G., Namara, R., Hussein, M., Ravnborg, H., Smith, L., Hnajra, van Koppen, B., Polak, P., Hirsch, D., Béné, C., Cook, S.E., and Molden, D.  2007. Improving Agricultural Water Management for Poverty Reduction: Challenges and Pathways. In: Molden, D. Water for Food, Water for Life. . Comprehensive Assessment of Water and Agriculture.  Earthscan, London and IWMI, Colombo.

13. Cook, S.E. , Gichuki, F. and Turral, H. 2006. Water Productivity: Estimation at Plot, Farm and Basin Scale. Basin Focal Project Working Paper No. 2. CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo. http://www.waterandfood.org/

14. Cook, S.E., Gichuki, F. and Turral, H. 2006. Agricultural Water Productivity: Issues, Concepts and Approaches. Basin Focal Project Working Paper No. 2a. CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo. http://www.waterandfood.org/

15. Cook, S.E. and Gichuki, F..  2006. Analyzing Water Poverty: Water, Agriculture and Poverty in Basins. Basin Focal Project Working Paper No. 3. CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo. http://www.waterandfood.org/

16. Chartres, C.J. and Cook, S.E. 2006. Water scarcity and feeding a growing world population: understanding spatial variability, water productivity and poverty. Paper presented at Rivers Symposium, Brisbane, Sep 2006. 

Precision agriculture 

17. Cook, S.E. Adams, M.L., Bramley, R.G.V., and B.M. Whelan. 2006. Australia. In: Handbook of Precision Agriculture. Howarth Press, NY.. 

18. Cook, S.E., Oberthür, T., O'Brien, R. and White D. 2004. Using Site-Specific Information to Encourage Safe and Essential Agricultural Development. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Minneapolis, July 25-28 2004.

19. O’Brien, R., Cook, S.E., Peters, M and R. J. Corner. 2004. A Bayesian Modeling Approach to Site Suitability under Conditions of Uncertainty. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Minneapolis, July 25-28 2004.

20. Dobermann, A., Blackmore, S., Cook, S.E. and Adamchuk, V.I. 2004. Precision Farming: Challenges and Future Directions. Keynote Paper. 4th. Int Crop Science Congress. Brisbane, October 2004. http://www.cropscience.org.au/icsc2004/symposia/4/3/217_dobermanna.htm

21. O'Brien, R., Peters, M., Schmidt, A., Cook, S. and Corner, R. (2003). Helping Farmers Select Forage Species in Central America: The Case for a Decision Support System. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 

22. Skerrit, J.H., Adams, M.L., Cook, S.E. and Naglis, G. 2002. Within-field variability in wheat quality: Implications for precision agricultural management. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 53, 1229-1242.

23. Cook, S.E. and Bramley, R.G.V. 2001. Is agronomy being left behind by precision agriculture? Invited Paper. 10th Australian Agronomy Conference. Hobart, January 2001. URL: http://www.regional.org.au/au/asa/2001/

24. Cook, S.E. and Bramley, R.G.V.  2000. Precision agriculture: Using paddock information to make cropping systems internationally competitive. In: Emerging Ideas In Agriculture: From ideas to adoption. BRS Australia. Canberra. URL: http://adl.brs.gov.au/data/warehouse/brsShop/data/scook_paper.pdf

25. Adams, M. L., Cook, S. & Bowden, J. W. (2000), ‘Using Yield Maps and Intensive Soil Sampling to Improve Nitrogen Fertiliser Recommendations from a Deterministic Model in the Western Australian Wheatbelt’, Australian Journal of Experimental Agricultural 40(7), 959–968.

26. Adams, M. L., Cook, S. & Corner, R. (2000), ‘Managing Uncertainty in Site-Specific Management: What is the Best Model’? Precision Agriculture 2, 39–54.

Site-specific insurance

27. J. Díaz Nieto, S.E. Cook, M.J. Fisher, P. Läderach, and M. Lundy. 2011. Weather indices for designing micro-insurance products for poor small-holder farmers in the tropics. Climate and Development (in Review).

28. Díaz Nieto, J., Cook, S.E., Laderach, P., Fisher, M.J. and Jones, P.G. (2010). Rainfall index insurance to help small-holder farmers manage drought risk. Climate and Development 2(3); 233-247.  

29. Peter Läderach, Thomas Oberthür, Simon Cook, Marcela Estrada, Jürgen A. Pohlan, Myles Fisher, Raul Rosales Lechuga. 2011. Systematic agronomic farm management for improved coffee quality. Field Crops Research 120 (2011) 321–329

30. Díaz Nieto, J., Cook, S.E., Fisher, M.J., Laderach, P. and Lundy, M. (2010). Weather indices for designing micro-insurance products for poor small-holder farmers in the tropics. Field crops research. (In review).

31. Díaz Nieto, J., Cook, S.E., Lundy, M. and M.J. Fisher. 2006. A system of drought insurance for poverty alleviation in rural areas. Final Report. German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation BMZ Project. 03.7860.4 – 001.00. URL:  http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/news/pdf/drought_insurance_report.pdf

Quantititative soil survey and land resource evaluation

32. Rubiano, J.E., Cook, S.E., Rajasekharan, M., Soto, V., and Douthwaite, B.. 2008. Extrapolation domain analysis: A tool to anticipate research impact.  Submitted to Agricultural Systems.

33. Cook, S.E., Jarvis, A. and Gonzalez, J.-P. 2008. A New Global Demand for Digital Soil Information. Developments in Soil Science: Digital Soil Mapping, Elsevier, London.

34. Gonzalez J.P., S. Cook, T. Oberthur, A. Jarvis, J.A. Bagnell, M.B. Dias. 2007. Creating Low-Cost Soil Maps for Tropical Agriculture using Gaussian Processes. Developments in Soil Science: Digital Soil Mapping, Elsevier, London. 

35. Gonzalez, J.P., Cook, S., Oberthür, T., Jarvis, A., Bagnell, J.A., Dias, M.B. 2006.  Creating Low-Cost Soil Maps for Tropical Agriculture using Gaussian Processes. International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India. 

36. Oberthür, T., Barrios, E & Cook, S.E. 2004. Increasing the relevance of scientific information in hillside environments through understanding of local soil management in a small watershed of the Colombian Andes. Soil Use & Management, 20:23-31

37. Cook, S.E. and Fujisaka, S. 2004. Spatial Dimension of Scaling Up and Out. P 53. In: Eds. D.Pachico and S. Fujisaka. Scaling up and out: Achieving widespread impact through agricultural research. CIAT, Colombia. 

38. Nelson, A., Oberthür, T., Cook, S.E. 2007. Multi scale correlations between topography and vegetation in a hillside catchment of Honduras. Int. J. GIS. 21(2): 145-174.

39. Oberthür, T., Barrios, E., Cook, S., Usma, H., Escobar, G. 2004. Increasing the relevance of scientific information in hillside environments through understanding of local soil management in a small watershed of the Colombian Andes. Soil Use and Management 19:1-9.

40. Pracilio, G., Cook, S.E., Bell, R.W. and Ros, C. (2004) Using weight of evidence modelling to map rice yield in southeast Cambodia. Annual Meeting Abstracts American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, 31 October- 4 November, 2004, Madison, WI, USA. p. 243

41. Corner R.J., Hickey R., Cook S.E. (2002) Knowledge based soil attribute mapping in GIS: The Expector method. Transactions in GIS. 6(4): 383-402.

42. G. Pracilio, S. Asseng, S.E. Cook, G. Hodgson, M.T.F. Wong, M.L. Adams and T.J. Hatton. 2003. Estimating spatially variable deep drainage across a central eastern wheatbelt catchment, Western Australia. Austr. J. Agric. Res. 54, 789-802.

43. Cook, S.E. Corner, R.J., Grealish, G. Gessler, P.E. and Chartres, C.J. 1996. A rule-based system to map soil properties. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 60:1893-1900. 

1.            Cook, S.E., Fisher, M.,  Andersson, M. Rubiano, J.E. and Giordano, M.. 2008. Poverty, agriculture and water. Water International. In review.

2.            Woolley, J.,  Cook, S.E., Molden, D. and Harrington, L. .2008. Water, food and development: The CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF). Water International. In Review.

3.             Harrington, L., Cook, S. Lemoalle, J. Kirby, J.M., Taylor, C.  and Woolley, J. . 2008. Cross-basin comparisons of water use, water scarcity and their impact on livelihoods: present and future. Water International. In review

4.             Cook,  S.E. , Gichuki, F. and Turral, H. 2006. Water Productivity: Estimation at Plot, Farm and Basin Scale. Basin Focal Project Working Paper No. 2. CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo. http://www.waterandfood.org/

5.             Cook,  S.E.,  Gichuki, F. and Turral, H. 2006. Agricultural Water Productivity: Issues, Concepts and Approaches. Basin Focal Project Working Paper No. 2a. CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo. http://www.waterandfood.org/

6.             Cook, S.E. and Gichuki, F..  2006. Analyzing Water Poverty: Water, Agriculture and Poverty in Basins. Basin Focal Project Working Paper No. 3. CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo. http://www.waterandfood.org/

7.             Chartres, C.J. and Cook, S.E. 2006. Water scarcity and feeding a growing world population: understanding spatial variability, water productivity and poverty. Paper presented at Rivers Symposium, Brisbane, Sep 2006.

8.             Castillo, G., Namara, R., Hussein, M., Ravnborg, H., SMith, L., Hnajra, van Koppen, B., Polak, P., Hirsch, D., Béné, C., Cook, S.E., and Molden, D.  2006. Improving Agricultural Water Management for Poverty Reduction: Challenges and Pathways. In: Molden, D. . Comprehensive Assessment of Water and Agriculture.  Earthscan, London and IWMI, Colombo.

Precision agriculture

9.             Cook, S.E. Adams, M.L., Bramley, R.G.V., and B.M. Whelan. 2006. Australia. In: Handbook of Precision Agriculture. Howarth Press, NY..

10.         Cook, S.E., Oberthür, T., O'Brien, R. and White D. 2004. Using Site-Specific Information to Encourage Safe and Essential Agricultural Development. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Minneapolis, July 25-28 2004.

11.         O’Brien, R., Cook, S.E., Peters, M and R. J. Corner . 2004. A Bayesian Modeling Approach To Site Suitability Under Conditions Of Uncertainty. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, Minneapolis, July 25-28 2004.

12.         Dobermann, A., Blackmore, S., Cook, S.E. and Adamchuk, V.I. 2004. Precision Farming: Challenges and Future Directions. Keynote Paper. 4^th. Int Crop Science Congress. Brisbane, October 2004. http://www.cropscience.org.au/icsc2004/symposia/4/3/217_dobermanna.htm

13.         O'Brien, R., Peters, M., Schmidt, A., Cook, S. and Corner, R. (2003). Helping Farmers Select Forage Species In Central America: The Case For A Decision Support System.  Agriculture , Ecosystems And Environment.

14.         Cook, S.E. and Bramley, R.G.V. 2001. Is agronomy being left behind by precision agriculture? Invited Paper. 10^th Australian Agronomy Conference. Hobart, January 2001. URL: http://www.regional.org.au/au/asa/2001/

Site-specific insurance

15.         Díaz Nieto, J., Cook, S.E., Lundy, M. and M.J. Fisher. 2006. A system of drought insurance for poverty alleviation in rural areas. Final Report. German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation BMZ Project. 03.7860.4 – 001.00. URL:  http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/news/pdf/drought_insurance_report.pdf

16.         Diaz-Nieto, J., Cook, S., Jones, P. and J. Skees. 2008. Developing a method of site-specific drought insurance for bean farmers in Honduras. Research Journal on MicroFinance and Development. In review.

Quantititative land resource evaluation

17.        Rubiano, J.E., Cook, S.E., Rajasekharan, M., Soto, V., and Douthwaite, B.. 2008. Extrapolation domain analysis: A tool to anticipate research impact.  Submitted to Agricultural Systems.

18.         Cook, S.E.,  Jarvis, A. and Gonzalez, J.-P. 2008. A New Global Demand For Digital Soil Information. Developments in Soil Science: Digital Soil Mapping, Elsevier, London.

19.          Gonzalez J.P., S. Cook, T. Oberthur, A. Jarvis, J.A. Bagnell, M.B. Dias. 2007. Creating Low-Cost Soil Maps for Tropical Agriculture using Gaussian Processes. Developments in Soil Science: Digital Soil Mapping, Elsevier, London.

20.         Gonzalez, J.P., Cook, S., Oberthür, T., Jarvis, A., Bagnell, J.A., Dias, M.B. 2006.  Creating Low-Cost Soil Maps for Tropical Agriculture using Gaussian Processes. International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India.

21.         Nelson, A., Oberthür, T. & Cook, S.E. 2006. Multiscale analyses of topography and vegetation in a hillside catchment of Honduras. Submitted International Journal Geographical Information Science. Volume 21: 145-174

22.         Oberthür, T., Barrios, E & Cook, S.E. 2004. Increasing the relevance of scientific information in hillside environments through understanding of local soil management in a small watershed of the Colombian Andes. Soil Use & Management, 20:23-31

23.         Cook, S.E. and Fujisaka, S. 2004. Spatial Dimension of Scaling Up and Out. P 53. In: Eds. D.Pachico and S. Fujisaka. Scaling up and out: Achieving widespread impact through agricultural research. CIAT, Colombia.

24.         Nelson, A., Oberthür, T., Cook, S. 2006. Multi scale analyses of topography and vegetation in a hillside catchment of Honduras. Int. J. GIS. In Press.

25.         Oberthür, T., Barrios, E., Cook, S., Usma, H., Escobar, G. 2004. Increasing the relevance of scientific information in hillside environments through understanding of local soil management in a small watershed of the Colombian Andes. Soil Use and Management 19:1-9.

26.         Corner RJ, Hickey R, Cook SE (2002) Knowledge based soil attribute Mapping In GIS: The Expector method. Transactions in GIS ..

27.         G. Pracilio, S. Asseng, S.E. Cook, G. Hodgson, M.T.F. Wong, M.L. Adams and T.J. Hatton. 2003. Estimating spatially variable deep drainage across a central eastern wheatbelt catchment, Western Australia. Austr. J. Agric. Res. 54, 789-802..