Matti Kummu

Matti Kummu

Professori
T213 Built Environment

The main focus of my research is the interaction between human population and earth system. I have been working extensively on assessing the global water scarcity and how it has impacted on food production and availability. To ease the ever-growing pressure on natural resources, we are working actively in deepening the understanding on global food system. Particularly, we are quantifying the potential of different measures, such as diet change, food loss reduction, emerging non-meat protein sources, and yield gap closure, to sustainably increase the food availability globally. Finally, we work also on a more local scale challenges and opportunities on water-energy-food nexus, particularly in Southeast Asian context.

I am part of Water and development research group, under Water and Environmental Engineering group, of which Master's programme I teach "Water and people in developing world"-course.

My ongoing projects include 

Sustainable food futures within safe operating spaces - SOS.aquaterra 

The project aims to identify feasible solutions to meet future food demand globally while staying within local and global safe operating spaces (SOS), such as planetary boundaries. In the project, we will develop a novel integrated modelling system that captures interactions between the relevant planetary boundary processes and the global food system. We will also assess the social feasibility of different measures that would ease the pressure food production puts on the environment. Project is funded by a H2020 ERC CoG grant. See more at https://wdrg.aalto.fi/sos-aquaterra/

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[email protected]
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+358504075171

Osaamisalueet

Geography, Remote Sensing, Water resources, Global change, Hydrology, Food security

Tutkimusryhmät

  • Water and Environmental Engineering, Professor

Julkaisut

Scenario projections of South Asian migration patterns amidst environmental and socioeconomic change

Sophie de Bruin, Jannis Hoch, Jens de Bruijn, Kathleen Hermans, Amina Maharjan, Matti Kummu, Jasper van Vliet 2024 Global Environmental Change

The asymmetric impacts of international agricultural trade on water use scarcity, inequality and inequity

Weiyi Gu, Fang Wang, Stefan Siebert, Matti Kummu, Xuhui Wang, Chaopeng Hong, Feng Zhou, Qing Zhu, Yue Qin 2024 Nature Water

Opportunities for carbon sequestration from removing or intensifying pasture-based beef production

Matthew N. Hayek, Johannes Piipponen, Matti Kummu, Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Shelby C. McClelland, Kimberly Carlson 2024 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity

Junguo Liu, Delong Li, He Chen, Hong Wang, Yoshihide Wada, Matti Kummu, Simon Newland Gosling, Hong Yang, Yadu Pokhrel, Philippe Ciais 2024 Nature Communications

Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra

Sybryn Maes, J. Dietrich, G. Midolo, S. Schwieger, M. Kummu, V. Vandvik, R. Aerts, I. H.J. Althuizen, C. Biasi, R. G. Björk, H. Böhner, M. Carbognani, G. Chiari, C. T. Christiansen, K. E. Clemmensen, E. J. Cooper, Johannes H.C. Cornelissen, B. Elberling, P. Faubert, N. Fetcher, T'ai G.W. Forte, J. Gaudard, K. Gavazov, Z. Guan, J. Guðmundsson, R. Gya, S. Hallin, B. B. Hansen, S. V. Haugum, JIn-Sheng He, C. Hicks Pries, Mark Hovenden, M. Jalava, I. S. Jónsdóttir, J. Juhanson, J. Y. Jung, E. Kaarlejärvi, Min-jung Kwon, Richard E. Lamprecht, M. Le Moullec, H. Lee, M. E. Marushchak, A. Michelsen, T. M. Munir, Eero M. Myrsky, Cecilie Skov Nielsen, Marion Nyberg, J. Olofsson, H. Óskarsson, T. C. Parker, E. P. Pedersen, M. Petit Bon, A. Petraglia, K. Raundrup, Nynne M.R. Ravn, R. Rinnan, H. Rodenhizer, I. Ryde, N. M. Schmidt, Edward A.G. Schuur, S. Sjögersten, S. Stark, M. Strack, J. Tang, A. Tolvanen, J. P. Töpper, M. K. Väisänen, Richardus S.P. van Logtestijn, C. Voigt, J. Walz, J. T. Weedon, Y. Yang, H. Ylänne, M. P. Björkman, J. M. Sarneel, E. Dorrepaal 2024 Nature

Half of twenty-first century global irrigation expansion has been in water-stressed regions

Piyush Mehta, Stefan Siebert, Matti Kummu, Qinyu Deng, Tariq Ali, Landon Marston, Wei Xie, Kyle Frankel Davis 2024 Nature Water

Notable shifts beyond pre-industrial streamflow and soil moisture conditions transgress the planetary boundary for freshwater change

Miina Porkka, Vili Virkki, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Dieter Gerten, Tom Gleeson, Chinchu Mohan, Ingo Fetzer, Fernando Jaramillo, Arie Staal, Sofie te Wierik, Arne Tobian, Ruud van der Ent, Petra Döll, Martina Flörke, Simon N. Gosling, Naota Hanasaki, Yusuke Satoh, Hannes Müller Schmied, Niko Wanders, James S. Famiglietti, Johan Rockström, Matti Kummu 2024 Nature Water

The potential to increase food system resilience by replacing feed imports with domestic food system byproducts

Vilma Sandstrom, Thomas Kastner, Florian Schwarzmueller, Matti Kummu 2024 Environmental Research Letters

Dependency on imported agricultural inputs—global trade patterns and recent trends

Vilma Sandström, Ellen Huan-Niemi, Jyrki Niemi, Matti Kummu 2024 Environmental Research: Food Systems

Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas of the world

Aino Ahvo, Matias Heino, Vilma Sandström, Daniel Chrisendo, Mika Jalava, Matti Kummu 2023 Nature food