Dr. Khanna examines the motivations for producers to adopt innovative technologies in food and fuel production, such as precision farming, biofuels, and conservation. Her work informs stakeholders and policy makers about the cost-effectiveness of various policy approaches to improve environmental quality and their implications for farm profitability, land use and food and fuel production. Madhu is the Director of CEOS. 

Watch Madhu's Mini-talk: Economic and Environmental Costs and Benefits of Biofuels (2020)

Dr. Irwin helps farmers in Illinois, the United States, and throughout the world make more informed production, marketing, and financial decisions by evaluating the economic factors that affect corn and soybean prices. He also leads farmdoc, a pathbreaking Extension project that provides timely, useful, and relevant online information about Corn Belt farm economics.
 

Dr. Gramig works on issues at the interface between humans and the environment related to water quality and quantity, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He conducts research to understand farmer behavior, and designs policies and programs to increase economic efficiency in agricultural conservation. He develops decision support tools and works with extension educators and farm advisers. He is an adjunct professor in ACE and a Research Agricultural Economist with the Economic Research Service, USDA.

Dr. Goldsmith brings new ideas about markets, practices, and management (like sustainable supply chains) to help small- and medium-scale farmers escape persistent poverty and promote a vibrant private agribusiness sector. He leads researchers from 15 countries in USAID’s Feed the Future Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research, developing soybean as a tool to reduce poverty and malnutrition.

Mr. Coppess’ experience in federal policymaking guides his research, extension, and teaching in agricultural policy and law. His work connects the history of federal agricultural policy development to current policy development, specifically applied to risk management and natural resource conservation.

Dr. Christensen leads a team of economists and computer scientists that are integrating new forms of data, machine learning algorithms, and large-scale experiments into economic research in his role as a core faculty member at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He focuses on energy and environmental economics, particularly as related to public goods provision in cities around the world.

Publications with CEOS themes since 2015

Dr. Bullock leads the Data Intensive Farm Management (DIFM) research team to improve the way the world fertilizes its crops. DIFM uses precision agriculture technology for large-scale agronomic field trials on farmers’ own fields, to generate “Big” agronomic data.  DIFM analyzes those data to find efficient means of reducing the loss of nitrogen fertilizer into the Mississippi River basin.

Publications with CEOS themes since 2015

Dr. Ando helps conservation agencies and groups maximize the benefits people glean from investments to protect nature. She helps conservation agents decide where and how long conservation contracts should be, and how we can reduce the risk of future conservation failure. She quantifies the benefits people gain from the environment and studies equity issues in how those benefits are distributed.

Watch Amy's Mini-talk: Using Nature to Stop the Next Pandemic (2020)