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  1. Quantifying the uncertainties in estimating the heterogeneous effects of carbon taxes on labor, land, water, and fertilizer use in US agriculture

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    17 May 2023 | Contributor(s): Iman Haqiqi

    Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the 2023 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC; July 23-25, 2023 Potential carbon taxes will have spatially heterogeneous impacts on agriculture. The magnitude of impacts depends on 1) the direct and...

  2. A review of global-local-global linkages in economic land-use/cover change models

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    04 May 2019 | Contributor(s): Tom Hertel, Thales A P West, Jan Börner, Nelson Benjamin Villoria

    Global change drivers of land-use/cover change (LUCC) like population dynamics, economic development, and climate change are increasingly important to local sustainability studies, and can only be properly analyzed at fine-scales that capture local biophysical and socio-economic conditions. When...

  3. Using spatially explicit data to improve our understanding of land supply responses: An application to the cropland effects of global sustainable irrigation in the Americas

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    09 Aug 2018 | Contributor(s): Nelson Benjamin Villoria, Jing Liu

    Land supply elasticities determine the rates of land conversion in global policy models. However, they are only available for few countries in the world. Therefore, analysts seeking to improve the spatial resolution of their models are forced to impose regionally homogeneous parameters...

  4. Cyberinfrastructure for the collaborative development of U2U decision support tools

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    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...

  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. Using Useful to Usable (U2U) Tools for an Introductory Agronomy Course (Purdue University) -- Lab Assignment

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    04 Dec 2014 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Trevor J. Frank, Bruce J. Erickson

    This lab was constructed to provide introductory Agronomy students with a knowledge base of farming technology and available agricultural decision-making tools. Students will learn available technology for predicting climate variability, growing degree days, nitrogen fertilizer rates, cover crop...

  7. Developing A Collaborative Environment for Useful to Useable (U2U) Project

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    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...

  8. Developing A Collaborative Environment for the Useful to Usable (U2U) Project

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    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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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,...

  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. U2U Selected Research Highlights

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    18 Feb 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    This short document overviews some of the recent research findings from the U2U project.

  13. U2U Poster - Oct 2012

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    27 Nov 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.

  14. U2U Progress Timeline (graphic)

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

  15. U2U Accomplishment Highlights (April 2011 - Sept 2012)

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    17 Oct 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm, John Kriva

    This document provides a brief overview of the top accomplishments from the U2U project from April 2011 - Sept 2012.

  16. U2U Fact Sheet - October 2012

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    17 Oct 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U fact sheet is a brief handout describing project objectives and participants.

  17. 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.

  18. U2U Objective 2 Fact Sheet

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    24 Jan 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U Objective 2 Fact Sheet briefly describes the planned and ongoing research activities, as well as participants, of the Objective 2 Working Group.

  19. U2U Objective 1 Fact Sheet

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    24 Jan 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U Objective 1 Fact Sheet briefly describes the planned and ongoing research activities, as well as participants, of the Objective 1 Working Group.

  20. U2U Fact Sheet - October 2011

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    28 Oct 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Melissa Widhalm

    The U2U fact sheet is a brief handout describing project objectives and participants.