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A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models
04 May 2019 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Thales A P West, Jan Börner, Nelson Benjamin Villoria
Global change drivers of land-use/cover change (LUCC) like population dynamics, economic development, and climate change are increasingly important to local sustainability studies, and can only be properly analyzed at fine-scales that capture local biophysical and socio-economic conditions. When...
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Achieving Sustainable Irrigation Water Withdrawals: Global Impacts on Food Production and Land Use
27 Sep 2017 | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Richard Lammers, Alexander A Prusevich, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Danielle Grogan, Steve Frolking
Unsustainable water use challenges the capacity of water resources to ensure food security and continued growth of the economy. Adaptation policies targeting future water security can easily overlook its interaction with other sustainability metrics and unanticipated local responses to the...
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Agricultural Productivity Growth for Long Run Sustainability
08 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos
Video presentation on "Agricultural Productivity Growth for Long Run Sustainability" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018
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An open source geospatial cyberinfrastructure for interdisciplinary collaboration and broader engagement
26 Oct 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Carol Song
Solving complex global problems demands that researchers from different disciplines work together, and their analytical tools, models and datasets interoperate. This is especially true in the context of sustainability. For instance, multiple goals of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
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Analyzing Water Scarcity in Global CGE Models
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Farzad Taheripour
Incorporating water into a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model operating at global scale can be extremely demanding due to the absence of standardized data, the sheer dimensions caused by intersecting river basins with countries, and difficulties to model demand for and supply of water....
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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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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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Assessing the Inter-regional Incidence of Climate Impacts on Agriculture
19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.
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Assessing the Poverty Impacts of Climate Change across Latin America
19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Monika Verma, Eduardo Magalhaes, Carlos Ludena, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Frances Moore
This is a poster presented at IMPACTS WORLD 2017, Germany.
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Attaining Food and Environmental Security in an Era of Globalization
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | 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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Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools
10 Nov 2016 | Publications | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Christopher Panza
This paper describes the use of cyberinfrastructure to create interactive applications as part of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. These applications transform historical climate data, knowledge, and models into decision support tools for end users such as crop farmers, uni- versity Extension...
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Debunking the 'New Normal': Why World Food Prices are Expected to Resume their Long run Downward Trend
08 Sep 2017 | Publications | 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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Developing A Collaborative Environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) Project
10 Nov 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski
HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...
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Developing A Collaborative Environment for Useful to Useable (U2U) Project
10 Nov 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Carol Song, Lan Zhao, Christopher Panza, Brian Raub, Luke Policinski
HUBzero is being used as a collaborative environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) project funded by the USDA. U2U is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central U.S. by transforming existing climate data into usable...
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Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: A comparison of process-based and statistical yield models
07 Sep 2017 | Publications | 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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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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Evaluation Reports
18 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Whitney Meredith
An evaluation team perodically examines our progress towards defined project objectives. During year 1, three such evaluations are scheduled. As these are completed, the report will be added to this resource.
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Geospatial Targeting of Irrigation Investment in Tanzania
11 Nov 2014 | Web Apps | Contributor(s): Jawoo Koo, Hua Xie, Liangzhi You, zhe guo, Jeffrey Dickinson, Cindy Cox
This tool helps users to identify specific sites within the SAGCOT (Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania) area where new irrigation investments should target at 10 km spatial resolution. Users can interact with the map (showing the grid cells meeting the requirements, where the color...
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GLASS Conference 2020 Program
28 Jan 2020 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel
Program description for "Managing the Global Commons: Sustainable agriculture and use of the world's land and water resources in the 21st Century" conference.
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Global Drivers of Land and Water Sustainability Stresses at Mid Century
08 Oct 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Laura C Bowling, Iman Haqiqi
Video presentation on "Global Drivers of Land and Water Sustainability Stresses at Mid Century" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018