A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results)

Understanding the global distribution of agricultural production provides valuable context for policymaking concerning development, wellbeing, and climate change. The IMPACT model generates broad regional aggregations of agricultural production and how much land would be needed, but a much more fine...

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Autor principal: Robertson, Richard D.
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146598
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description Understanding the global distribution of agricultural production provides valuable context for policymaking concerning development, wellbeing, and climate change. The IMPACT model generates broad regional aggregations of agricultural production and how much land would be needed, but a much more fine-grained picture would be helpful. The basic building blocks of such a companion system are presented here. Describing site specific land use and cropping choices as they are currently realized is a difficult proposition. Projecting them into the future is an even more challenging task. A key problem is that none of the simple “right” ways adequately mimic observed behavior. We present a mix of theoretical and heuristic approaches that bring together climate data, cost of access, and crop modeling results, to develop pixel level allocations of crops and natural lands consistent with economic simulations from the IMPACT model. We find that climate change is much more of a threat to natural land types than agricultural expansion into such locations.
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spelling CGSpace1465982025-11-06T06:35:29Z A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results) Robertson, Richard D. models geographical information systems land-use mapping agricultural production global observing systems land allocation land use land cover mapping land cover climate change Understanding the global distribution of agricultural production provides valuable context for policymaking concerning development, wellbeing, and climate change. The IMPACT model generates broad regional aggregations of agricultural production and how much land would be needed, but a much more fine-grained picture would be helpful. The basic building blocks of such a companion system are presented here. Describing site specific land use and cropping choices as they are currently realized is a difficult proposition. Projecting them into the future is an even more challenging task. A key problem is that none of the simple “right” ways adequately mimic observed behavior. We present a mix of theoretical and heuristic approaches that bring together climate data, cost of access, and crop modeling results, to develop pixel level allocations of crops and natural lands consistent with economic simulations from the IMPACT model. We find that climate change is much more of a threat to natural land types than agricultural expansion into such locations. 2019-01-25 2024-06-21T09:07:42Z 2024-06-21T09:07:42Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146598 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148024 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150391 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Robertson, Richard D. 2019. A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results). IFPRI Discussion Paper 1800. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146598
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geographical information systems
land-use mapping
agricultural production
global observing systems
land allocation
land use
land cover mapping
land cover
climate change
Robertson, Richard D.
A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results)
title A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results)
title_full A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results)
title_fullStr A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results)
title_full_unstemmed A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results)
title_short A land accounting model for IMPACT (with early results)
title_sort land accounting model for impact with early results
topic models
geographical information systems
land-use mapping
agricultural production
global observing systems
land allocation
land use
land cover mapping
land cover
climate change
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