Agricultural economy

Component is implemented in:

MAGNET model (version IMAGE-MAGNET 3.0) Components: Agricultural economy

Related IMAGE components

Drivers Land-use allocation

Projects/Applications

AgMIP and ISI-MIP project FOODSECURE Global Land Outlook 1 Global Land Outlook 2 LUC4C Rethinking Biodiversity Strategies (2010) project Roads from Rio+20 (2012) project Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - SSP (2014) project Sim4Nexus The Protein Puzzle (2011) project

Key publications

Bijl et al., 2017 Stehfest et al., 2013 Von Lampe et al., 2014 Woltjer et al., 2014

References

Carpenter et al., 2006 Kallio et al., 2004 Van Vuuren et al., 2018 Woltjer et al., 2011

Flowchart Agricultural economy. See also the Input/Output Table on the introduction page.

Key policy issues

• What is the area of cropland and grassland required to support future food demand?
• What are the policy options to reduce agricultural land use and to safeguard global biodiversity, while ensuring food security?
• How can the implications of biofuels for land use and greenhouse gases be managed sustainably?

Introduction