It's our life & heritage.
Pollution threatens our rivers and lakes, and development eats away at forests and other natural habitats. CEOS collaborators inform policies and management actions to improve water quality and to protect the lands that nurture wildlife, provide recreational opportunities, and save landscapes that are a valued aesthetic heritage for future generations.
Land and Water Mini-talks
Using Nature to Stop the Next Pandemic - Presented by Amy Ando
How Much of U.S. Farmland is Organic? Presented by Joe Janzen
If Less Tillage Costs Less, Then Why Don’t More Farmers Use Conservation Tillage? Presented by Ben Gramig
Collaboration: The New Role of Agriculture in Policy for Carbon and Nutrient Trading Markets
CEOS faculty and students: Amy Ando, Jonathan Coppess, Shadi Atallah, Madhu Khanna, Benjamin Gramig
Funding: Illinois Farm Bureau
Agriculture has the potential to reduce nutrient loadings in surface waters of the U.S. and net carbon emissions that contribute to the clear and existential threat posed by climate change. But what is the best role that agriculture can play in carbon trading markets to provide value for both agricultural producers and society, and to ensure the credit system has enough real impact on net carbon emissions that it remains viable in years to come? How can credits for nutrient and carbon reductions be stacked and aligned to best capture synergies in those systems for agricultural producers and the people that stand to benefit from environmental improvements? What roles can be played by public policy and private markets to facilitate or support these fledgling markets? CEOS is synthesizing and extending previous research about carbon and nutrient trading using a case study in the Midwest to demonstrate clearly to policy makers how systems of carbon and nutrient trading can be designed.
Collaboration: Informing Regenerative Agriculture Policy
CEOS faculty and students: Amy Ando, Shadi Atallah, Ben Gramig
Funding: Moore & Warner, LLC
This project conducts a critical review of regenerative agriculture standards and permit programs. We scope the strengths of extant programs and explore whether potential exists for developing a new standard protocol based on strengths and weaknesses of existing standards in the regenerative agriculture space.
Research Output
| Title | Publication | Authors | Year Published | Category | Method | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Village fairness norms and land rental markets. | World Bank Economic Review | Hope Michelson, K. Krah, A. Maertens, W. Mhango, and V. Nourani | 2024 | LW | N/A | (WP) Working Paper |
| Paying for agricultural information in Malawi: The role of soil heterogeneity | Journal of Development Economics | Hope Michelson, Julia Berazneva, Annemie Maertens, Wezi Mhango | 2023 | LW | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Does unconventional energy extraction generate more wastewater? A lifetime perspective | Ecological Economics | Xu, M., Xu, Y., Khanna, M. | 2022 | LW, EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Impact of changes in Title II of the 2018 Farm Bill on the acreage and environmental benefits of Conservation Reserve Program | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Cornish, B., Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2022 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The effect of farm size and farmland use on agricultural diversification: a spatial analysis of Brazilian municipalities | Anais | Mary Arends-Kuenning, JL Parre, ALS Chagas | 2022 | FA, LW | N/A | (WP) Working Paper |
| Private contributions for public information: soil testing in Malawi | SSRN | Berazneva, J., Maertens, A., Mhango, W., & Michelson, H. | 2022 | LW, SC | (FE) Field Experiment | (WP) Working Paper |
| How do farmers learn from extension services? Evidence from Malawi | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Maertens, A., Michelson, H., & Nourani, V. | 2021 | FA, LW, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Farmers' heterogeneous perceptions of marginal land for biofuel crops in US Midwestern states considering biophysical and socioeconomic factors | GCB Bioenergy | Yang, P., Cai, X., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | LW | (OM) Other | |
| Conservation tillage mitigates drought induced soybean yield losses in the US Corn Belt | Q Open | Chen, B., Gramig, B.M., & Yun, S.D. | 2021 | FA, LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Gender, education, and farm succession in Western Paraná State | Land Use Policy | Arends-Kuenning, M., Kamei, A., Garcias, M., Romani, G. & Shikida, P. | 2021 | LW | (OM) Other | (WP) Working Paper |
| Households’ preferences for hydrological services in Veracruz, Mexico: The importance of outcomes vs. program design | Journal of Environmental Management | McGinnis, I., Atallah, S.S., & Huang, J. | 2021 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Assessing marginal land availability based on land use change information in the contiguous United States | Environmental Science & Technology | Jiang, C., Guan, K., Khanna, M., Chen, L., & Peng, J. | 2021 | LW | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Quantifying tradeoffs between electricity generation and fish populations via population habitat duration curves | Ecological Modelling | Logan, L. H., Gupta, R. S., Ando, A. Cory Suski, C., & Stillwell, A. S. | 2021 | LW | (VA) Valuation | |
| Agricultural impacts of climate change in Indiana and potential adaptations | Climatic Change | Bowling, L.C., Cherkauer, K., Lee, C., Beckerman, J., Brouder, S., Buzan, J., Doering, O., Dukes, J., Ebner, P., Frankenberger, J., Gramig, B.M., Kladivko, E., Volenec, J. | 2020 | FA, LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Consequences of protected areas for forest extraction and human well-being: Evidence from Nepal | Environmental and Resource Economics | Howlader, A., & Ando, A. W. | 2020 | LW, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Water quality effects of economically viable land use change in the Mississippi River Basin under the renewable fuel standard | Environmental Science & Technology | Ferin, K.M., Chen, L., Zhong, J., Acquah, S., Heaton, E.A., Khanna, M., & VanLoocke, A. (2020). | 2020 | LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Willingness-to-volunteer and stability of preferences between cities: Estimating the benefits of stormwater management | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Cadavid, C.L., Ando, A.W., Netusil, N., & Parthum, B. |
2020 | LW, SC | (VA) Valuation | |
| Worshipping the tiger: Modeling non-use existence values of wildlife spiritual services | Environmental and Resource Economics | Lopes, A. A., & Atallah, S. S. | 2020 | LW, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Diversifying to reduce conservation outcome uncertainty in multiple environmental objectives | Agricultural and Resource Economics Review | Ando, A.W., Howlader, A. & Mallory, M. | 2020 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention | Science | Dobson, A. P., Pimm, S. L., Hannah, L., Kaufman, L., Ahumada, J. A., Ando, A. W., Bernstein, A., Busch, J., Daszak, P., Engelmann, J., Kinnaird, M. F., Li, B. V., Loch-Temzelides, T., Lovejoy, T., Nowak, K., Roehrdanz, P. R., & Vale, M. M. | 2020 | LW | (OM) Other | |
| Market structure and the effect of ethanol expansion on Land allocation: A spatially explicit analysis | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Wang, Y., Delgado, M. S., Sesmero, J. P., Gramig, B. M. |
2020 | FA, LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (SM) System Modeling | |
| Overlooked benefits of nutrient reductions in the Mississippi River Basin | Land Economics | Parthum, B., & Ando, A.W. | 2020 | FA, LW | (VA) Valuation | |
| The effect of projected climate change on the economics of conservation tillage | Agronomy Journal | Hodde, W., Sesmero, J., Gramig, B., Vyn, T., & Doering, O |
2019 | FA, LW | N/A | |
| Are non-market values important to smallholders’ afforestation decisions? A psychometric segmentation and its implications for afforestation programs | Forest Policy and Economics | Baker, K., Baylis, K., Bull, G., & Barichello, R. |
2019 | LW, O | (VA) Valuation | |
| Perdas na colheita de soja na região oeste do Paraná | Revista Tecnologia e Sociedade | Esser Romani, G., Arends-Kuenning, M., Assis Shikida, P.F, & de Oliveira Garcias, M. | 2019 | FA, LW | (OM) Other | |
| Conservation agriculture and climate resilience | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Michler, J., Baylis, K., Arends-Kuenning, M., & Mazvimavi, K. | 2019 | FA, LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Adoption of agricultural conservation practices in the United States: Evidence from 35 Years of quantitative literature | Journal of Soil and Water Conservation | Prokopy, LS, K Floress, JG Arbuckle, SP Church, F Eanes, Y Gao*, BM Gramig, P Ranjan, AS Singh | 2019 | FA, LW | (OM) Other | |
| Effect of corn ethanol production on conservation reserve program acres in the US | Applied Energy | Chen, X., & Khanna, M. |
2018 | LW, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| The economics of species conservation | Annual Review of Resource Economics | Ando, A.W. & Langpap, C. | 2018 | LW | (OM) Other | |
| When portfolio theory can help environmental investment planning to reduce climate risk to future environmental outcomes – and when it cannot | Conservation Letters | Ando, A.W., Fraterrigo, J., Guntenspergen, G., Howlader, A., Mallory, M., Olkers, J., & Stickley, S. | 2018 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Valuing the benefits of green stormwater infrastructure | Oxford Encyclopedia of Water Resources Management and Policy | Ando, A.W., & Netusil, N. | 2018 | LW, SC | (VA) Valuation | |
| A return to the crossroads: Farming, nutrient loss and conservation | U. of Arkansas-Little Rock Law Review | Coppess, J. W. | 2017 | LW | (OM) Other | |
| Fine-resolution conservation planning with limited climate-change information | Conservation Biology | Shah, P.S., Mallory, M.L., Ando, A.W. & Guntenspergen, G. | 2017 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Integrated economic and environmental assessment of cellulosic biofuel production in an agricultural watershed | BioEnergy Research | Song, J., Gramig, B. M., Cibin, R., & Chaubey, I. |
2017 | FA, LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Bioenergy economics and policy in US and Brazil: Effects on land use and greenhouse gas emissions | Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy (Volume II) | Khanna, M., & Zilberman, D. |
2017 | LW, EE | (OM) Other | |
| The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage | Science Advances | Hungate, B.A., Barbier, E.B., Ando, A.W., Marks, S.P., Reich, P.B., van Gestel, N., Tilman, G.D., Knops, J., Hooper, D.U., Butterfield, B. & Cardinale, B.J. | 2017 | LW | (VA) Valuation | |
| Assessing pollinator habitat services to optimize conservation programs | The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics | Iovanna, R., Ando, A. W., Swinton, S., Kagan, J., Hellerstein, D., Mushet, D., & Otto, C. | 2017 | LW | (VA) Valuation | |
| Towards a theoretical construct for modelling smallholders’ forestland-use decisions: What can we learn from agriculture and forest economics? | Forests | Baker, K., Bull, G. Q., Baylis, K., & Barichello, R. |
2017 | LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Spatially explicit return on investment to private forest conservation for water purification in Indiana, USA | Ecosystem Services | Wang, Y., Atallah, S. S., & Shao, G. |
2017 | LW | (SM) System Modeling | |
| The effectiveness of payments for environmental services | World Development | Börner, J., Baylis, K., Corbera, E., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Honey-Rosés, J., Persson, U. M., & Wunder, S. |
2017 | LW | (OM) Other | |
| Permanent and temporary policy incentives for conservation under stochastic returns from competing land uses | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Shah, P.S. & Ando, A. W. | 2016 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| The economics of conservation and finance: A review of the literature | International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics | Ando, A. W. & Shah, P. S. | 2016 | LW | (OM) Other | |
| Spatially-correlated risk in nature reserve site selection | PlosONE | Albers, H.J., Busby, G., Hamaide, B., Ando, A. W. & Polasky, S. | 2016 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Goldilocks and the raster grid: Choosing a unit of analysis for evaluating conservation programs | PlosOne | Avelino, A. F. T., Baylis, K., & Honey-Rosés, J. |
2016 | LW, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Emerging evidence of tropical forest conservation effectiveness | PlosOne | Börner, J., Baylis, K., Corbera, E., Ezzine-de-Blas, D., Ferraro, P. J., Honey-Rosés, J., ... & Wunder, S. |
2016 | LW | (OM) Other | |
| Downside vs. symmetric measures of uncertainty in natural resource portfolio design to manage climate-change uncertainty | Land Economics | Shah, P.S. & Ando, A. W. | 2015 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| How effective are biodiversity conservation payments in Mexico? | PlosOne | Costedoat, S., Corbera, E., Ezzine de Blas, D., Honey-Roses, J., Baylis, K., & Castillo-Santiago, M. A. |
2015 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Mainstreaming impact evaluation in nature conservation | Conservation Letters | Baylis, K., Honey-Rosés, J., Börner, J., Corbera, E., Ferraro, P., Pfaff, A., Davies, P., Ezzine de Blas, D. Lapeyre, R., Pagiola, S., Persson, M., & Wunder S. |
2015 | LW | (OM) Other | |
| Impacts of management practices on bioenergy feedstock yield and economic feasibility on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands | GCB Bioenergy | Anderson, E.K., Aberle, E., Chen, C., Egenolf, J., Harmonmey, K., Kakani, G., Kallenbach, R.L., Khanna, M., Wang, W., & Lee, D.K. |
2015 | LW, EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Agro-Climatic Data by County (ACDC), 1981-2015 | Purdue University Research Repository | Yun, S.D., & Gramig, B.M. | 2015 | FA, LW | (OM) Other | |
| A conservation planning approach to mitigating the impacts of leakage from protected area networks | Conservation Biology | Bode, M., Tulloch, A., Mills, M., Venter, O., & Ando, A. | 2015 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Simple-but-sound methods for estimating the value of changes in biodiversity for biological pest control in agriculture | Ecological Economics | Letourneau, D., Ando, A.W., Narwani, A., Jedlicka, J., & Barbier, E. | 2015 | LW | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Evaluating heterogeneous conservation effects of forest protection in Indonesia | PlosOne | Shah, P., & Baylis, K. |
2015 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation |