Biofuels and Climate Change:Farmers' Land Use Decisions The
Biofuels and Climate Change: Farmers' Land Use Decisions (BACC:
FLUD) project aims to research farmers’ decisions to grow crops
as feedstocks for renewable energy production ("biofuel crops"),
and farmer's adaptation to climate change. BACC: FLUD is a
collaborative project uniting faculty across multiple social and
natural science disciplines, along with engineering, and between
the educational institutions of the University of Kansas and
Kansas State University. This project is funded by a five year
grant from the National Science Foundation. Although the current
research scope covers the state of Kansas, the long-range plan
is to extend the study to all US states producing biofuel crops.
Project objectives are as follows:  extract information from a
satellite remote sensing land cover database;  develop and
implement a survey instrument for gathering information from
farmers;  develop and implement a protocol for interviewing
farmers;  integrate a