Former Team Members
Mansi Nagpal
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Economics
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Research Interests
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Agriculture and food economics
- Sustainable development
- Agent-based modelling
Curriculum Vitae
2020 – 2025
PhD student, Graduate School AGRI-TRANSFORM, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig
2016 − 2019
Research Consultant at CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), New Delhi, India
2015 − 2016
Junior Research Assistant at Creative Agri Solutions Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, India
2014
Summer Internship at International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), New Delhi, India (June − August)
2013 − 2015
Masters of Arts in Agribusiness Economics at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India (Master Thesis: “Mapping the relationship between gender and migration in agriculture sector in India”)
2009 − 2012
Bachelors of Arts in Economics at University of Delhi, India
Current Projects
Doctoral project: Future drought impacts on German agriculture: modeling options for a transformation to resilience
Publications
2025 (8)
- Bartkowski, B., Baaken, M.C., Nagpal, M., Sodoge, J., de Brito, M.M. (2025):
What constitutes sustainable agriculture for different audiences in Germany? A comparative analysis of large-scale text data
People Nat. 7 (3), 715 - 730 10.1002/pan3.70003 - Heilemann, J., Klassert, C.J.A., Nagpal, M., Werner, S., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2025):
Trapped in irrigation: future irrigation expansion amplifies food-water-energy policy trade-offs in Germany
ESS Open Archive 10.22541/essoar.176279374.40773657/v1 - Heilemann, J., Nagpal, M., Werner, S., Klassert, C., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2025):
More droughts, more irrigation? Modeling the adaptive behavior of German farmers to hydrometeorological and socioeconomic change
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU24-11342 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11342 - Heilemann, J., Nagpal, M., Werner, S., Klauer, B., Gawel, E., Klassert, C. (2025):
Scenario projections of future irrigation water demand for field crops in Germany considering farmers’ adaptive land use
Agric. Water Manage. 318 , art. 109699 10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109699 - Klassert, C., Heilemann, J., Werner, S., Nagpal, M., Digman, E., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2025):
Rural-urban water scarcity risks in historically water-abundant regions: The role of intensifying human-natural systems variability
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU25-18310 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18310 - Nagpal, M., Heilemann, J., Klauer, B., Gawel, E., Klassert, C. (2025):
Hydro-economic assessment of biophysical drought impacts on agriculture
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU24-17486 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-17486 - Nagpal, M., Heilemann, J., Samaniego, L., Klauer, B., Gawel, E., Klassert, C. (2025):
Measuring extremes-driven direct biophysical impacts in agricultural drought damages
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 25 (6), 2115 - 2135 10.5194/nhess-25-2115-2025 - Werner, S., Heilemann, J., Klassert, C., Nagpal, M., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2025):
Simulating irrigation demand under climate change applying a high-resolution hydro-economic Multi-Agent-System model in Thuringia
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU25-11792 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11792
2024 (1)
- Nagpal, M., Klassert, C., Heilemann, J., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2024):
Measuring crop acreage adaptation to changing yields and prices: An empirical analysis for agriculture in Germany
SSRN 10.2139/ssrn.4728661
2023 (2)
- Heilemann, J., Nagpal, M., Klassert, C., Peichl, M., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2023):
From rain-fed to irrigated agriculture? Projecting the future irrigation water demand in Germany using a hydro-economic multi-agent system model
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU23-6034 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6034 - Nagpal, M., Klassert, C., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2023):
Simulating economic impacts of droughts on agriculture using DroughtMAS
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU23-13372 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13372
2020 (1)
- Aggarwal, P., Shirsath, P., Vyas, S., Arumugam, P., Goroshi, S., Aravind, S., Nagpal, M., Chanana, M. (2020):
Application note: Crop-loss assessment monitor–A multi-model and multi-stage decision support system.
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 175, 105619. ISI Impact Factor: 3.858.