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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

iData Tutorial

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...

Web Leaflet Map Tool

07 May 2016 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan

Web Map Tool Using Leaflet and Python

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...

LANDPARAM

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

A tool to aggregate cropland supply and land transformation elasticities

RHSeg

30 Jun 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan (contributor), Lexie Yang (contributor)

The Recursive Hierarchical Image Segmentation (RHSEG) software package integrated with GeoHub release version 1.59

Geospatial Modeler

08 Aug 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan

A HUBzero Open Geospatial Modeler Tool for Remote Sensing and Geospatial Data Analysis

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.

Active Learning Modeler Tool

17 Mar 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Wei Wan, Lexie Yang (contributor), Rajesh Kalyanam (contributor), Christopher Panza (contributor)

Graphic modeling and view for active learning algorithms of remote sensing, integration with IData.

MultiSpec

24 Oct 2014 | Tools | Contributor(s): Larry Biehl, Abdur Rahman Maud, Wei-Kang Hsu, Tsung Tai Yeh

Image processing application to display and analyze geospatial images

Active Learning Tool

04 Feb 2015 | Tools | Contributor(s): Lexie Yang, wanwei

A Demo for "Advance Active Learning Algorithms for Robust Multi-Sensor Data Analysis"

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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...