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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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...

  7. 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

  8. Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries

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    01 Aug 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

    This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...

  9. 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,...

  10. 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...

  11. Assessing the Impacts of Climate Mitigation Policies on Poverty in Developing Countries

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    31 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel

    This is the presentation made to the African Agriculture GIS week conference.BioPrepared by Thomas Hertel with assistance from Zekarias Hussein, based on collaboration with Alla Golub, Ben Henderson, Pierre Gerber, Steve Rose and Brent SohngenCreditsFunding from the FAO and the Center for Global...

  12. Cyberinfrastructure for GEOSHARE

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    31 Jul 2014 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carol Song, Lan Zhao

  13. 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.

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

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

  15. U2U Poster - May 2012

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    18 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    This poster provides a general overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) project. Anyone on the U2U team is welcome to present this poster at conferences or other venues. This hi-resolution pdf is ready for priting a 3 ft. (H) by 4 ft. (W) poster.

  16. U2U Overview Presentation

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    03 Aug 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, Linda Prokopy

    This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the Useful to Usable (U2U) research project. Last updated Nov. 1, 2011.

  17. driNET: Drought Reserach Initiative Network

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    20 Jun 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song

  18. A seasonal-scale climatological analysis correlating spring tornadic activity with antecedent fall–winter drought in the southeastern United States

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    14 Jun 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Dev Niyogi

    Using rain gauge and satellite-based rainfall climatologies and the NOAA Storm PredictionCenter tornado database (1952–2007), this study found a statistically significant tendency forfall–winter drought conditions to be correlated with below-normal tornado days the followingspring in north...

  19. A Web-Based Interface for SWAT Modeling on the TeraGrid

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    06 Jun 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Lan Zhao, Carol Song, Indrajeet Chaubey, Rao S Govindaraju

    The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a river basin scale model developed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS). It is widely used by researchers in various scientific domains to study the impact of land management practices on water quantity, sediment, and water quality in large...

  20. POL 520/EAS 591 Great issues: climate and policy

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    14 Nov 2010 | Courses

    The course POL 520/EAS 591, “Great issues: climate and policy”, is designed to better educate students in the use and misuse of modeling across disciplines, so that they will be better builders and consumers of integrated, complex models of coupled human/natural systems in their own careers. More...