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Five new insights on food, energy, water, and ecosystem security
FEWscapes researchers have been working on science with a focus on applied problem-solving. Here are a few insights from their work.
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Can Models Predict the Future?
Can you spot the problem with this headline? Here’s a hint: It contains a common misconception about how scientists use […]
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Midwest Growers View Conservation as Central to Farming, Survey Shows
Farmers in the Midwest are likely to react positively to policies that advance conservation goals — as long as those policies also take farm profitability seriously.
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Is It Time to Rethink the Wisconsin Phosphorus Index?
Available data suggest that, even if all farms comply with existing standards, nutrient levels in lakes and streams would likely not meet targets for safe fishing and swimming.
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Survey results show Midwest farmers’ views on farm financial programs and conservation
Researchers from the FEWscapes project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently published two research briefs highlighting Midwest farmers’ views on farm […]
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Video: The Model Input Data for the FEWscapes Scenarios
An overview of the data we will be using as model inputs to simulate the project’s scenarios for food, energy, water, and ecosystem security in the Upper Mississippi River Basin to the year 2050.
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Principles for Policies to Advance Food, Energy, Water, and Ecosystem Security
How policies could be developed differently to reduce the risk of negative unintended consequences and increase FEW resilience.
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Three Examples from History That Demonstrate the Need to Break Down Silos in Decision-Making for Food, Energy, and Water Security
A new paper by the FEWscapes team outlines how siloed decision-making leads to unintended consequences for FEW systems.
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Oh The Stories These Pixels Could Tell, An Inside Look at AgroIBIS
Peek under the hood of AgroIBIS, the principal model we’re using in FEWscapes, and get a glimpse of just how it reads agricultural landscapes.