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...

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

Analyzing Water Scarcity in Global CGE Models

08 Sep 2017 | 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....

Assessing the Inter-regional Incidence of Climate Impacts on Agriculture

19 Oct 2017 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

This is a presentation at IMPACTS WORLD 2017.

Assessing the Poverty Impacts of Climate Change across Latin America

19 Oct 2017 | 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.

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...

Connecting Communities Through HUBzero

03 Oct 2014 | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Hongjun Choi, Lan Zhao

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...

DURI Summer Intern Project: Drought related data and tools: development and integration

08 Aug 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Yuan Xia

A poster presented at the DURI student recognition luncheon, July 28, 2011. Yuan Xia, a junior from Computer Science, Purdue University, completed his summer internship with the Scientific Solutions group at RCAC. He helped integrated various maps and datasets into the DRINET. The live page can...

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...

Effects of Drought on Water Quality in Streams

08 Aug 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Rashad Riley, Indrajeet Chaubey, Lan Zhao

A research poster presented at the DDAD2011 symposium. It describes the preliminary results of a study on drought impact on water quality conducted over the Massie Creek sub-watershed in Ohio. The Messie Creek data is now available on DRINET and access is through the iDATA tool.Rashad Riley1,...

Enabling Scientific Collaboration Using HUBzero Platform

03 Oct 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao

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

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...

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