Mansi Nagpal
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Economics
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: +49 341 6025 1681
mansi.nagpal@ufz.de
Research Interests
- Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Agriculture and food economics
- Sustainable development
- Agent-based modelling
Curriculum Vitae
since 2020
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., 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., Klassert, C., Bevacqua, E., Rakovec, O., Samaniego, L., Klauer, B., Gawel, E. (2025):
Attribution of observed impacts of climate change on crop yields and economic damages from extreme weather events
EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU25-19155 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-19155 - 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.