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| Souty, Francois; Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice; Dorin, Bruno; Ciais, Philippe; Crassous, Renaud. |
| Interactions between food demand, biomass energy and forest preservation are driving both food prices and land-use changes, regionally and globally. This study presents a new model called Nexus Land-Use which describes these interactions through a generic representation of agricultural intensification mechanisms. The Nexus Land-Use model equations combine biophysics and economics into a single coherent framework to calculate crop yields, food prices, and resulting pasture and cropland areas within 12 regions inter-connected with each other by international trade. The representation of cropland and livestock production systems in each region relies on three components: (i) a biomass production function derived from the crop yield response function to inputs... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land-use Change; Modelling; Global Biomass Projections; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q11; Q15. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/122859 |
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