By Nicholas Hudson, AgMIP
As global climate continues to change, the question of the potential economic consequences of this change on the world’s food supply is one that scientists have been endeavoring to answer. Previous research has produced wide variations in results concerning the future of prices, production, and trade.
The Agricultural Model and Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) in association with the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP) is leading a global economic model intercomparison, which harmonized the input datasets for 10 global agro-economic models to better evaluate the model results. Each of the economic models ran simulations with standardized initial conditions for multiple scenarios, as outlined in von Lampe, et al. (2014). Through harmonizing the model inputs, this effort hoped to shed light on the different behaviors and more subtle aspects of heterogeneity between the 10 global economic models with the goal of leading to meaningful analysis and inter comparison.
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