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Debunking the 'New Normal': Why World Food Prices are Expected to Resume their Long run Downward Trend
08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel
Contrary to the opinions expressed by many commentators, the recent episode of higher prices for agricultural commodities is likely a transitory phenomenon. When compared to the last half-century, population growth is expected to be much slower in the coming decades, with nearly all of the growth...
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Attaining Food and Environmental Security in an Era of Globalization
08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos
Attaining the twin goals of food and environmental security in the coming decades poses a significant sustainability challenge. This paper examines the food and environmental security implications of a range of policies affecting the global food economy and terrestrial ecosystems, first in the...
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Land Use in the 21st Century: Contributing to the Global Public Good
08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This paper focuses on the evolution of global public goods related to the world’s land resources over the course of the 21st century, their potential impacts on the world’s poorest households, as well as prospects for policy interventions aimed at enhancing these outcomes. It begins...
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The power and pain of market-based carbon policies: a global application to greenhouse gases from ruminant livestock production
08 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Benjamin Henderson, Alla A Golub, Daniel Djauhari Pambudi, Tom Hertel, Cecile Godde, Mario Herrero, Oscar Cacho, Pierre J. Gerber
The objectives of this research are to assess the greenhouse gas mitigation potential of carbon policies applied to the ruminant livestock sector [inclusive of the major ruminant species—cattle (Bos Taurus and Bos indicus), sheep (Ovis aries), and goats (Capra hircus)]— with...
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Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: A comparison of process-based and statistical yield models
07 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Frances C Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel
A large number of studies have been published examining the implications of climate change for agricultural productivity that, broadly speaking, can be divided into process-based modeling and statistical approaches. Despite a general perception that results from these methods differ...
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iData Tutorial
22 Jul 2016 | Contributor(s): Abilene Thiele Concepcion Perez
*Note that the number before each step is the time on the YouTube video below where it shows how each step is done. Click on "View Resource" on the top right to watch the video.Start iData [0:05] Go to http://mygeohub.org/idata to load the iData application. It starts with...
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Data-driven Collaboration Environments - Integrating HUBzero and iRODS
15 Sep 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam
As part of an effort to establish a community-based data sharing environment, we previously developed a HUBzero-based web component, iData. Using the open-source data management software, iRODS, iData provides hub users and tools with the ability to publish, manage, discover...
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LANDPARAM
20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)
A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities
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iData Cheat Sheet
19 Jun 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song
This document is a quick note that guides new iData users through the steps of registering a hub account, creating a new dataset, uploading some files, and sharing with others.
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Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries
01 Aug 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...
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Energy prices will play an important role in determining global land use in the twenty first century
31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Tom Hertel
Global land use research to date has focused on quantifying uncertainty effects of three major drivers affecting competition for land: the uncertainty in energy and climate policies affecting competition between food and biofuels, the uncertainty of climate impacts on agriculture and forestry,...
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Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries
31 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...
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Cyberinfrastructure for GEOSHARE
31 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Lan Zhao
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driNET: Drought Reserach Initiative Network
20 Jun 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song
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A Web-Based Interface for SWAT Modeling on the TeraGrid
06 Jun 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Indrajeet Chaubey, Rao S Govindaraju
The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a river basin scale model developed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS). It is widely used by researchers in various scientific domains to study the impact of land management practices on water quantity, sediment, and water quality in large...
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2011 Symposium on Data-Driven Approaches to Droughts flyer
22 Jul 2010 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Carol Song
The DRINET team is hosting this symposium during June 20-22, 2011 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.This symposium is sponsored by the National Science Foundation through the Office of Cyberinfrastructure* and the Hydrological Sciences Division, and is in partnership with EWRI...