Research & Data from the Southwest Hub Region
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New Climate Projections Released for Tribal Lands
Detailed future projections for 633 tribal areas focus on agricultural climate variables
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Southwestern Drought Seen in Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Program
To help farmers cope with drought, programs like the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage (PRF) insurance program managed by the USDA’s Risk Management Agency provide financial support. Data from the USDA’…
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Students take data-driven action!
A new education module help students move from data literacy into action.
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Without Water There Is No Agriculture: ARS's Road Map for Water Research to 2050
Please see the full publication here.
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Opportunities with the USDA Climate Hubs
Here are recently posted positions, post-docs, and fellowships that are available with one of the regional Climate Hubs.
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Vulnerability Assessments of U.S. Agriculture and Forests (2018)
Two special issues in the journal Climatic Change feature vulnerability assessments of agriculture and forestry across the Nation.
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Livestock Ranching, Rangelands, and Resilience: Ensuring Adaptive Capacity in an Increasingly Variable Climate
Beginning in 2018 and concluding in 2022, the USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub helped conduct a research and outreach project to explore the concept of "socio-ecological resilience" from…
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2020 Jornada Virtual Symposium
The USDA Southwest Climate Hub team prepared flash presentations to showcase our climate adaptation projects. The Hub has three functional areas: 1) research, science synthesis, assessments, 2) tool…
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Spatio-temporal analysis of Federal crop insurance cause of loss data: A roadmap for research and outreach efforts
Federal crop insurance provides a financial safety net for farmers against insured perils such as drought, heat, and freeze. In this white paper, we analyze publicly-available Federal crop insurance…
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Synthesis of Grazing and Water Management Strategies in the Great Basin
To address water limitations, ranchers have developed innovative grazing and water management strategies.
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Long Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) Network
The Long Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) is a partnership among 18 premier long-term research sites across the United States. The LTAR network will provide data that can be used in the…