Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption

Over the next decades mankind will demand more food from fewer land and water resources. This study quantifies the food production impacts of four alternative development scenarios from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the Special Report on Emission Scenarios. Partially and jointly considered...

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Autores principales: Schneider, Uwe, Havlík, Petr, Schmid, Erwin, Valin, Hugo, Mosnier, Aline, Obersteiner, Michael, Böttcher, Hannes, Skalsky, Rastislav, Balkovič, Juraj, Sauer, Timm, Fritz, Steffen
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Publicado: Elsevier 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77148
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author Schneider, Uwe
Havlík, Petr
Schmid, Erwin
Valin, Hugo
Mosnier, Aline
Obersteiner, Michael
Böttcher, Hannes
Skalsky, Rastislav
Balkovič, Juraj
Sauer, Timm
Fritz, Steffen
author_browse Balkovič, Juraj
Böttcher, Hannes
Fritz, Steffen
Havlík, Petr
Mosnier, Aline
Obersteiner, Michael
Sauer, Timm
Schmid, Erwin
Schneider, Uwe
Skalsky, Rastislav
Valin, Hugo
author_facet Schneider, Uwe
Havlík, Petr
Schmid, Erwin
Valin, Hugo
Mosnier, Aline
Obersteiner, Michael
Böttcher, Hannes
Skalsky, Rastislav
Balkovič, Juraj
Sauer, Timm
Fritz, Steffen
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description Over the next decades mankind will demand more food from fewer land and water resources. This study quantifies the food production impacts of four alternative development scenarios from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the Special Report on Emission Scenarios. Partially and jointly considered are land and water supply impacts from population growth, and technical change, as well as forest and agricultural commodity demand shifts from population growth and economic development. The income impacts on food demand are computed with dynamic elasticities. Simulations with a global, partial equilibrium model of the agricultural and forest sectors show that per capita food levels increase in all examined development scenarios with minor impacts on food prices. Global agricultural land increases by up to 14% between 2010 and 2030. Deforestation restrictions strongly impact the price of land and water resources but have little consequences for the global level of food production and food prices. While projected income changes have the highest partial impact on per capita food consumption levels, population growth leads to the highest increase in total food production. The impact of technical change is amplified or mitigated by adaptations of land management intensities.
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spelling CGSpace771482024-07-29T19:30:59Z Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption Schneider, Uwe Havlík, Petr Schmid, Erwin Valin, Hugo Mosnier, Aline Obersteiner, Michael Böttcher, Hannes Skalsky, Rastislav Balkovič, Juraj Sauer, Timm Fritz, Steffen agriculture food security climate change Over the next decades mankind will demand more food from fewer land and water resources. This study quantifies the food production impacts of four alternative development scenarios from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the Special Report on Emission Scenarios. Partially and jointly considered are land and water supply impacts from population growth, and technical change, as well as forest and agricultural commodity demand shifts from population growth and economic development. The income impacts on food demand are computed with dynamic elasticities. Simulations with a global, partial equilibrium model of the agricultural and forest sectors show that per capita food levels increase in all examined development scenarios with minor impacts on food prices. Global agricultural land increases by up to 14% between 2010 and 2030. Deforestation restrictions strongly impact the price of land and water resources but have little consequences for the global level of food production and food prices. While projected income changes have the highest partial impact on per capita food consumption levels, population growth leads to the highest increase in total food production. The impact of technical change is amplified or mitigated by adaptations of land management intensities. 2011-02 2016-09-28T10:12:11Z 2016-09-28T10:12:11Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77148 en Open Access Elsevier Schneider UA, Havlik P, Schmid E, Vlin H, Obersteiner M, Böttcher H, Skalský R, Balkovič J, Fritz S. 2011. Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption. Agricultural Systems 104(2):204-215.
spellingShingle agriculture
food security
climate change
Schneider, Uwe
Havlík, Petr
Schmid, Erwin
Valin, Hugo
Mosnier, Aline
Obersteiner, Michael
Böttcher, Hannes
Skalsky, Rastislav
Balkovič, Juraj
Sauer, Timm
Fritz, Steffen
Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption
title Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption
title_full Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption
title_fullStr Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption
title_full_unstemmed Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption
title_short Impacts of population growth, economic development, and technical change on global food production and consumption
title_sort impacts of population growth economic development and technical change on global food production and consumption
topic agriculture
food security
climate change
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77148
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