New science of climate change impacts on agriculture implies higher social cost of carbon

22 Nov 2017 | Contributor(s): Frances C. Moore, Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel, Delavane Diaz

Despite substantial advances in climate change impact research in recent years, the scientific basis for damage functions in economic models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) is either undocumented, difficult to trace, or based on a small number of dated studies. Here we present...

Open access SPAM for Ghana: Challenges and opportunities

01 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Liangzhi You

Overview and Lessons from the Pilot Project

01 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Paul Hendley, Nelson Benjamin Villoria

POL 520/EAS 591 Great issues: climate and policy

14 Nov 2010 | Courses

The course POL 520/EAS 591, “Great issues: climate and policy”, is designed to better educate students in the use and misuse of modeling across disciplines, so that they will be better builders and consumers of integrated, complex models of coupled human/natural systems in their own careers. More...

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...

Predicting the Spatial Patterns of Land Conversion

01 Oct 2014 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu

Predicting the Spatial Patterns of Land Conversion

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu

Predicting the Spatial Patterns of Land Conversion

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu

Productivity growth and poverty reduction in India: A GEOSHARE application from the IRRI/Asia Hub

01 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andy Nelson

Proposed Institutional Design for GEOSHARE

01 Oct 2014 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao

Proposed Institutional Design for GEOSHARE

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

Proposed Institutional Design for GEOSHARE

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

Running SPAM on the HUB and Incorporating Private Sector Knowledge

01 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Paul Preckel, Jingyu Song

SPAM in the Clouds

01 Oct 2014 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Jingyu Song, Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Paul Preckel

SPAM in the Clouds

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jingyu Song, Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Paul Preckel

SPAM in the Clouds

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jingyu Song, Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Paul Preckel

State-of-the-art in Data Fusion

01 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Navin Ramankutty

The AgMIP tool for global impact assessment of climate change

01 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria

The derived demand for geospatial data in global change analysis and the need for data endorsement

01 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Niven Winchester, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Petr Havlik

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...