Cranfield University

Dr Anil Graves

Research Fellow in Land Use Systems
Location: Building 42a, Cranfield campus
E: a.r.graves@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2727
Natural Resources

Current activities

Dr Anil Graves is a Research Fellow in the Natural Resources Management Centre.  He is currently engaged on a Rural Economic and Land Use project.  This aims to understand how farmers make management decisions and how in the future, these management decisions might impact on farmland birds populations and his current research involves developing a stakeholder analysis of those with an interest in and influence over farmland bird populations in the UK.  As part of this, he has developed a computer-based “Stakeholder Analysis Tool”.  This can be used classify the stakeholders into groups and determine their importance within the stakeholder network.  He is also involved in European Union projects to understand the farm-gate economics of bioenergy crops in Europe.  Recently, he further improved the computer-based agroforestry models FarmSAFE and PlotSAFE, developed on the European Union SAFE project, for the Swiss Federal Research Station, and was also involved in the International Assessment of Science and Technology for Development. 

Clients

• Department for International Development
• European Commission
• FAL, Switzerland
• National Wasteland Development Board
• Alterra, the Netherlands
• UK Research Councils
• Various development organisations

Background

Dr Anil Graves graduated as a natural resources scientist with a BSc in Natural Resources Development (University of East Anglia). After working for seven years in India, Anil returned to the UK and completed an MSc in Land and Water Management (Cranfield University), and a PhD in Bio-economic Evaluation of Agroforestry Systems in Europe (Cranfield University). 

Since graduating from the University of East Anglia, Anil has contributed to many field- and research-level projects, both nationally and internationally. Initially, Anil spent seven years working in South India helping to manage an integrated catchment and reforestation project to recover highly degraded land.  He was also part of a project that was involved in rehabilitating South India rainwater harvesting systems.  His research interests focussed on obtaining a water balance of the catchment where the reforestation was taking place to determine the hydrological impact of large scale reforestation, using the heat pulse method to measure sap flows in trees.  He also initiated research to map the extent and severity of saline intrusion along the Coromandel Coast.  Since returning to the UK, Anil has worked at Cranfield University.  His primary research has been in the development and use of computer-based biophysical and economic models of arable, forestry, and agroforestry systems the UK and Europe.  He has also undertaken research to evaluate the impact of crop and soil simulation models in less developed countries, examined the biophysical and socio-economic limitations of low external input technologies for sustainable agriculture in Nepal, Bolivia, Brazil and Ghana. 

Selected publications

• Graves, A.R., Burgess, P.J. , Liagre, F. , Pisanelli, A., Paris, P., Moreno, G. , Bellido, M.., Mayus, M. , Postma, M. , Schindler, B. , Mantzanas, K., Papanastasis, V.P., Dupraz, C.   (Accepted, 2007).  Farmer perceptions of silvoarable systems in seven European countries.  Advances in Agroforestry.
• McAdam, J.H., Burgess, P.J., Graves, A.R., Mosquera-Losada, M.R., and Rigueiro-Rodriguez, A. (Accepted, 2007).  Classifications and functions of agroforestry systems in Europe.  Advances in Agroforestry. 
• Palma, J.H.N., Graves, A.R., Bunce, R.G.H., Burgess, P.J., de Filippi, F., Keesman, K.J., van Keulen, H., Liagre, F., Mayus, M., Moreno, G., Reisner, Y. & Herzog, H. (2007).  Modeling environmental benefits of silvoarable agroforestry in Europe.  Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 119: 320-334.
• Palma, J.H.N., Graves, A.R., Burgess, P.J. & Herzog, F. (2007) Integrating profitability and environmental performance to assess modern silvoarable agroforestry in Europe.  Paper submitted to Ecological Economics 63: 759-767.
• Graves, A.R., Burgess, P.J., Palma, J.H.N., Herzog, F., Moreno, G., Bertomeu, M., Dupraz, C., Liagre, F., Keesman, K., van der Werf, W. Koeffeman de Nooy, A. & van den Briel, J.P. (2007).  Development and application of bio-economic modelling to compare silvoarable, arable and forestry systems in three European countries.  Ecological Engineering. 29: 434-449.
• van der Werf, W., Keesman, K., Burgess, P.J., Graves, A.R., Pilbeam, D, Incoll, L.D, Metselaar, K., Mayus, M., Stappers, R., van Keulen, H., Palma, J & Dupraz, C. (2007).  Yield-SAFE: a parameter-sparse process-based dynamic model for predicting resource capture, growth and production in agroforestry systems.  Ecological Engineering 29: 419-433.
• Palma, J.H.N., Graves, A.R., Burgess, P.J., Keesman, K.J., van Keulen, H., Mayus, M., Reisner, Y. & Herzog, F.  (2007).  Methodological approach for the assessment of environment effects of agroforestry at the landscape scale.  Ecological Engineering 29: 450-462.
• Graves, A.R., Burgess, P.J., Liagre, F., Terreaux, J.P., & Dupraz, C. (2005).  Development and use of a framework for characterising computer models of silvoarable economics.  Agroforestry Systems.65: 53-65.
• Graves AR, Matthews RB and Waldie K. (2004).  Low external input technologies for livelihood improvement in subsistence agriculture.  Advances in Agronomy 82:  473-555
• Graves AR, Hess T, Matthews RB, Stephens W and Mason T (2002).  Crop simulation models as tools in education.  Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 31:  48-54
• Matthews, R.B., Stephens, W., Hess, T., Mason, T. & Graves, A.R. (2002). Application of crop soil simulation models in tropical agricultural systems. Advances in Agronomy 17:31-123.
• Graves, A.R., Pugajendy, J. & Murugaian, S. (2000). Exacting extractions: patterns of groundwater extraction by different user groups near Pondicherry in Coastal Tamil Nadu. Wasteland News 15:14-19.
• Burgess, P.J., Brierley, E.D.R. & Graves, A.R. (2000). Report on Farm Woodlands for the Future Conference. Quarterly Journal of Forestry 94(1):65-69.
• Graves, A.R., Gev, I. and Berlinner P. (1997).  Transpiration in two common tree species in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India, using the calibrated heat pulse method to measure sap flux.  Current Science 72: 3, 196 - 201.
• Graves, A.R., Gev, I. and Berlinner, P. (1997).  Evaluating the water balance of Auroville, Tamil Nadu, using the calibrated heat pulse method.  Wasteland News 12, 2.

Further publications