GEOSHARE: Geospatial Open Source Hosting of Agriculture, Resource and Environmental Data for Discovery and Decision Making

1 The authors acknowledge prior support from the UK Foresight Project, UK-DFID, UK-DEFRA and ERS-USDA, ILSIResearch Foundation/CIMSANS, as well as seed funding from the Purdue Global Policy Research Institute and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center. Paul Hendley, Gill Shepherd, Dave Gustafson and Lowell Hardin provided valuable comments on an earlier draft. This document was prepared during Tom Hertel’s Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center: July, 2013 and he would like to thank his fellow residents for valuable discussions on this topic.