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  1. 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...

  2. 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

  3. 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...

  4. 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....

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. Connecting Communities Through HUBzero

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

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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,...

  16. Enabling Scientific Collaboration Using HUBzero Platform

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

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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

  20. 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