Global Drivers of Land and Water Sustainability Stresses at Mid Century

08 Oct 2018 | 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

Introduction Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture

08 Oct 2018 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

Video presentation on introduction of the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018

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...

LANDPARAM

20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)

A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

LANDPARAM

20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)

A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt

08 Oct 2018 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Christopher Kucharik, Laura C Bowling, Jing Liu

Video presentation on "Managing Nitrate Leaching in the Corn Belt" for the 2018 Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture, the National Press Club, Washington DC, September 17, 2018

Managing the Global Commons: Sustainable Agriculture and Use of the World's Land and Water Resources in the 21st Century

19 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Laura C Bowling, Keith Cherkauer, Matthew Huber, David R Johnson, Carol Song, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.

Market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels

31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Wallace E. Tyner

This paper surveys the evidence on market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels, with special attention to the indirect greenhouse gas emissions stemming from land cover change in the wake of increased demand for biofuel feedstocks. We find clear evidence that market mediated land use...

MyGeoHub Geospatial Gateway

26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Lan Zhao, Rob Campbell, Derrick Kearney, I Luk Kim, Jaewoo Shin, Larry Biehl, Wei Wan, Carol Song

MyGeoHub is a science gateway for researchers working with geospatial data. Based on the HUBzero cyberinfrastructure framework, it provides general-purpose software modules enabling geospatial data management, processing and visualization. Termed “GABBs” (Geospatial Data Analysis...

PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

14 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Delphine, Navin Ramankutty, I Luk Kim, Rajesh Kalyanam

A GEOSHARE tool for conducting live simulations using PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

Predicting Long Term Food Demand, Cropland Use and Prices

08 Sep 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe

This paper seeks to survey, understand and reconcile the widely divergent estimates of long run global crop output, land use and price projections in the current literature. We begin by reviewing the history of such projections and the different models and assumptions used in these exercises. We...

Quantifying the uncertainties in estimating the heterogeneous effects of carbon taxes on labor, land, water, and fertilizer use in US agriculture

17 May 2023 | Publications | Contributor(s): Iman Haqiqi

Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the 2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC; July 23-25, 2023 Potential carbon taxes will have spatially heterogeneous impacts on agriculture. The magnitude of impacts depends on 1) the direct and...

Root Zone Water Quality Model

08 Jun 2022 | Tools | Contributor(s): Balaji Sesha Srikanth Pokuri, Anupam Bhar (contributor)

Whole-system model for studying crop production and environmental quality under current and changing climate conditions., developed by USDA-ARS

The power and pain of market-based carbon policies: a global application to greenhouse gases from ruminant livestock production

08 Sep 2017 | Publications | 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...

U2U Overview Presentation

03 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) research project. Last updated Nov. 1, 2011.

U2U Poster - July 2011

22 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.Thank you to our University of Wisconsin colleagues...

Using spatially explicit data to improve our understanding of land supply responses: An application to the cropland effects of global sustainable irrigation in the Americas

09 Aug 2018 | Publications | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu

Land supply elasticities determine the rates of land conversion in global policy models. However, they are only available for few countries in the world. Therefore, analysts seeking to improve the spatial resolution of their models are forced to impose regionally homogeneous parameters...