College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Non-AFRE Co-Principle Investigators: Other Colleagues at Iowa State and South Dakota State University ( Project Co-Director Professor Larry Janssen at SDSU)

Introduction

• This project is funded by a competitive grant from the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The overall focus is on adaptation to climate change at the Cornbelt's northwest edge, in the eastern and central regions of the Dakotas. The ultimate goal of this research is to develop an integrated framework for understanding agroecosystem adaptation to climate change in a production system transition zone, and for appropriate policy formation to help agricultural adjustments.

Overview/Objectives of Subprojects in This General Research Project

• Adaptation of agroecosystems to climate change at the edge of the U.S. Cornbelt-assessing different drivers in a spatially explicit network of infrastructure
• Understanding dynamics of land use switching with satellite and field level data in context of climate variability
• Characterizing and Comprehending Land Use Change in the Loess Hills Region

Project Activities

• Data Resources
• Field trip and project meeting in Brookings, SD in May 2014
• Land use surveys

Project Outputs

• Climate Change throughout the Dakotas, by Benjamin Uecker
• Land use and climate change in the Dakotas
• Role of ethanol plants in Dakotas land use changes
• Characterizing and Comprehending Land Use Change in the Loess Hills Region
• Gaurav Arora, Peter T. Wolter, Hongli Feng, and David A. Hennessy. 2015. Role of Ethanol Plants in Dakotas’ Land Use Change: Analysis Using Remotely Sensed Data. Selected Paper prepared for presentation at the 2015 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July 26 -28

Implementation Period: Feb 1, 2014 - Jan 31, 2017

Links

• View USDA/REEIS Project Portal