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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...
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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
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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....
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools
10 Nov 2016 | 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...
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Data-driven Collaboration Environments - Integrating HUBzero and iRODS
15 Sep 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam
As part of an effort to establish a community-based data sharing environment, we previously developed a HUBzero-based web component, iData. Using the open-source data management software, iRODS, iData provides hub users and tools with the ability to publish, manage, discover...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Developing Open Source Geospatial Data Analysis Building Blocks Software
26 Oct 2017 | Publications | Contributor(s): JIngbo Wu
This is an article published at Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research by Jingbo Wu describing his summer intern work as part of the GABBs project.
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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...
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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.
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Geospatial Targeting of Irrigation Investment in Tanzania
11 Nov 2014 | Web Apps | Contributor(s): Jawoo Koo, Hua Xie, Liangzhi You, zhe guo, Jeffrey Dickinson, Cindy Cox
This tool helps users to identify specific sites within the SAGCOT (Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania) area where new irrigation investments should target at 10 km spatial resolution. Users can interact with the map (showing the grid cells meeting the requirements, where the color...
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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.
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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
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iData Cheat Sheet
19 Jun 2015 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song
This document is a quick note that guides new iData users through the steps of registering a hub account, creating a new dataset, uploading some files, and sharing with others.
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iData Packaging Tool
12 Jun 2018 | Tools | Contributor(s): Rajesh Kalyanam, Rob Campbell (contributor), Lan Zhao (contributor)
Package iData files into a BagIT bag for subsequent import to a different project.
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iData Tutorial
22 Jul 2016 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Abilene Thiele Concepcion Perez
*Note that the number before each step is the time on the YouTube video below where it shows how each step is done. Click on "View Resource" on the top right to watch the video.Start iData [0:05] Go to http://mygeohub.org/idata to load the iData application. It starts with...