Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments

Regional and global economic models, combined with spatially distributed crop growth simulation models and hydrology models that simulate water supply and demand across sectors (among others), represent the most widely used quantitative approach for addressing questions related to food security unde...

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Autores principales: Petsakos, Athanasios, Montes, Carlo, Falck-Zepeda, José B., Pequeno, Diego Noleto Luz, Schiek, Benjamin, Gotor, Elisabetta
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Publicado: Springer 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174926
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author Petsakos, Athanasios
Montes, Carlo
Falck-Zepeda, José B.
Pequeno, Diego Noleto Luz
Schiek, Benjamin
Gotor, Elisabetta
author_browse Falck-Zepeda, José B.
Gotor, Elisabetta
Montes, Carlo
Pequeno, Diego Noleto Luz
Petsakos, Athanasios
Schiek, Benjamin
author_facet Petsakos, Athanasios
Montes, Carlo
Falck-Zepeda, José B.
Pequeno, Diego Noleto Luz
Schiek, Benjamin
Gotor, Elisabetta
author_sort Petsakos, Athanasios
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description Regional and global economic models, combined with spatially distributed crop growth simulation models and hydrology models that simulate water supply and demand across sectors (among others), represent the most widely used quantitative approach for addressing questions related to food security under alternative future scenarios (e.g., for a recent reference, van Dijk et al., 2021). These integrated foresight modelling approaches, hereinafter referred to as “Agricultural Integrated Assessment Models” (AIAMs), provide a macro-level view of the global food system, encompassing, directly or indirectly, implicitly or explicitly, components outlined in contemporary definitions (HLPE, 2017). Due to the complex nature of modelling the effects of crop pests and pathogens (P&P) on crop performances, the use of AIAMs in P&P-related analyses has been scant and limited to hypothetical epidemics caused by specific P&Ps affecting a single crop (Godfray et al., 2016; Petsakos et al., 2023). This limitation, also identified in the ex-ante assessment of the pesticide reduction objective of the European Common Agricultural Policy (Barreiro-Hurle et al., 2021), suggests that AIAMs overlook a critical element – one that has historically contributed to, or even triggered, famine events (Padmanabhan, 1973; Woodham-Smith, 1992). Given the importance of AIAMs in informing policies and shaping agricultural decisions at national and global scales (e.g., Barreiro-Hurle et al., 2021; Fuglie et al., 2022), it is necessary to adress this gap.
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spelling CGSpace1749262025-12-09T20:53:22Z Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments Petsakos, Athanasios Montes, Carlo Falck-Zepeda, José B. Pequeno, Diego Noleto Luz Schiek, Benjamin Gotor, Elisabetta agriculture economics food security pathogens Regional and global economic models, combined with spatially distributed crop growth simulation models and hydrology models that simulate water supply and demand across sectors (among others), represent the most widely used quantitative approach for addressing questions related to food security under alternative future scenarios (e.g., for a recent reference, van Dijk et al., 2021). These integrated foresight modelling approaches, hereinafter referred to as “Agricultural Integrated Assessment Models” (AIAMs), provide a macro-level view of the global food system, encompassing, directly or indirectly, implicitly or explicitly, components outlined in contemporary definitions (HLPE, 2017). Due to the complex nature of modelling the effects of crop pests and pathogens (P&P) on crop performances, the use of AIAMs in P&P-related analyses has been scant and limited to hypothetical epidemics caused by specific P&Ps affecting a single crop (Godfray et al., 2016; Petsakos et al., 2023). This limitation, also identified in the ex-ante assessment of the pesticide reduction objective of the European Common Agricultural Policy (Barreiro-Hurle et al., 2021), suggests that AIAMs overlook a critical element – one that has historically contributed to, or even triggered, famine events (Padmanabhan, 1973; Woodham-Smith, 1992). Given the importance of AIAMs in informing policies and shaping agricultural decisions at national and global scales (e.g., Barreiro-Hurle et al., 2021; Fuglie et al., 2022), it is necessary to adress this gap. 2025-08 2025-06-03T13:08:28Z 2025-06-03T13:08:28Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174926 en Open Access Springer Petsakos, Athanasios; Montes, Carlo; Falck-Zepeda, José; Pequeno, Diego Noleto Luz; Schiek, Benjamin; and Gotor, Elisabetta. 2025. Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments. Food Security 17(4): 979-984. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-025-01549-1
spellingShingle agriculture
economics
food security
pathogens
Petsakos, Athanasios
Montes, Carlo
Falck-Zepeda, José B.
Pequeno, Diego Noleto Luz
Schiek, Benjamin
Gotor, Elisabetta
Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments
title Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments
title_full Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments
title_fullStr Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments
title_full_unstemmed Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments
title_short Bridging the gap: Integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments
title_sort bridging the gap integrating crop pests and pathogens into agricultural foresight models for food security assessments
topic agriculture
economics
food security
pathogens
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174926
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