Energy prices will play an important role in determining global land use in the twenty first century

31 Jul 2014 | 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,...

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.

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.

Global Croplands: A new dataset for year 2005

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Dany Plouffe, Navin Ramankutty, Lisa Ribaudo, Mark Friedl, Damien Sulla-Menashe

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

Graphical User Interface for the California Food-Energy-Water System (CALFEWS) simulation model

04 Feb 2021 | Tools | Contributor(s): Andrew L Hamilton, Harrison Zeff, Keyvan Malek, Jonathan Herman, Jonathan Cohen, Josue Medellin-Azuara, Patrick M. Reed, Gregory W. Characklis

Graphical User Interface for the California Food-Energy-Water System (CALFEWS) simulation model

IFPRI's Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM)

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ulrike Wood-Sichra, Liangzhi You

International trade buffers the impact of future irrigation shortfalls

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Tom Hertel, Farzad Taheripour, Tingju Zhu, Claudia Ringler

Introduction Conference on the Long Run Sustainability of US Agriculture

08 Oct 2018 | Online Presentations | 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 | Publications | 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

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.

Mapping multiple cropping and irrigation in India

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gang Zhao, Stefan Siebert

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...

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...

Predicting the Spatial Patterns of Land Conversion

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

Proposed Institutional Design for GEOSHARE

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

Root Zone Water Quality Model

06 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