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  1. Attaining Food and Environmental Security in an Era of Globalization

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    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...

  2. Land Use in the 21st Century: Contributing to the Global Public Good

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    08 Sep 2017 | 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...

  3. The power and pain of market-based carbon policies: a global application to greenhouse gases from ruminant livestock production

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    08 Sep 2017 | 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...

  4. Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture: A comparison of process-based and statistical yield models

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    07 Sep 2017 | 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...

  5. iData Tutorial

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    22 Jul 2016 | 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...

  6. Data-driven Collaboration Environments - Integrating HUBzero and iRODS

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    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...

  7. Climate Scenario Aggregator

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    09 Sep 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

    Climate Scenario Aggregator

  8. LANDPARAM

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    20 Jul 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Jing Liu, Nelson Benjamin Villoria (contributor)

    A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

  9. iData Cheat Sheet

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    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.

  10. The role of international trade in managing food security risks from climate change

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    20 Mar 2015 | Publications | Contributor(s): Uris Lantz C Baldos, Tom Hertel

    International trade plays an important role in facilitating global food security in the face of a changing climate. In considering this issue, it is useful to distinguish between two different time scales: inter-annual and inter-decadal. Inter-annual adjustments in international trade can play an...

  11. AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with iData Integration Demo

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    06 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Mí_ller, Jaewoo Shin, Christopher Panza, Lan Zhao

    Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level

  12. AgMIP GEOSHARE Tool with iData Integration Demo

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    06 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Joshua Elliott, Christoph Mí_ller, Jaewoo Shin, Christopher Panza, Lan Zhao

    Aggregate yield shocks provided by the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID) from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level

  13. Market-mediated environmental impacts of biofuels

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    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...

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

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    31 Jul 2014 | Publications | 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,...

  15. Climate change mitigation policies and poverty in developing countries

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    31 Jul 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Zekarias Hussein, Tom Hertel, Alla Golub

    Mitigation of the potential impacts of climate change is one of the leading policy concerns of the 21st century. However, there continues to be heated debate about the nature, the content and, most importantly, the impact of the policy actions needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions. One...

  16. AgMIP Tool: A GEOSHARE tool for aggregating outputs from the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID)

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    09 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, joshua elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

    Aggregate the yield shocks provided by the AgMIP project from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level.

  17. AgMIP Tool: A GEOSHARE tool for aggregating outputs from the AgMIP's Global Gridded Crop Modeling Initiative (Ag-GRID)

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    09 Jul 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, joshua elliott, Christoph Müller, Jaewoo Shin, Lan Zhao

    Aggregate the yield shocks provided by the AgMIP project from their original 30x30 min resolution to any user specified level.

  18. PEGASUS (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios)

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    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)

  19. National Initiatives Gauge Farmer Perceptions of Climate Change (press release)

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    05 Mar 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): John Kriva, Melissa Widhalm

  20. U2U Progress Timeline (graphic)

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    08 Nov 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, John Kriva