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Author Mitter, H.; Schönhart, M.; Meyer, I.; Mechtler, K.; Schmid, E.; Sinabell, F.; Bachner, G. openurl 
  Title Agriculture Type Book Chapter
  Year 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 121-144  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Vienna Editor Steininger, K.; König, M.; Bednar-Friedl, B.; Kranzl, L.; Loibl, W.; Prettenthaler, F.  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts. Development of a Cross-Sectoral Framework and Results for Austria Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial (down) 5014  
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Author Mitter, H.; Schmid, E.; Sinabell, F. url  doi
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  Title Integrated modelling of protein crop production responses to climate change and agricultural policy scenarios in Austria Type Journal Article
  Year 2015 Publication Climate Research Abbreviated Journal Clim. Res.  
  Volume 65 Issue Pages 205-220  
  Keywords Climate change impact; Adaptation; Soybean; EPIC; Common Agricultural Policy; Land use  
  Abstract Climate and policy changes are likely to affect protein crop production and thus trade balances in Europe, which is highly dependent on imports. Exemplified for Austrian cropland, we developed an integrated modelling framework to analyze climate change and policy scenario impacts on protein crop production and environmental outcomes. The integrated modelling framework consists of a statistical climate change model, a crop rotation model, the bio-physical process model EPIC, and the economic bottom-up land use optimization model BiomAT. EPIC is applied to simulate annual dry matter crop yields for different crop management practices including crop rotations, fertilization intensities, and irrigation, as well as for 3 regional climate change scenarios until 2040 at a 1 km grid resolution. BiomAT maximizes total gross margins by optimizing land use choices and crop management practices subject to spatially explicit cropland endowments. The model results indicate that changes in agricultural policy conditions, cropland use, and higher flexibility in crop management practices may reduce protein import dependence under changing climatic conditions. Expanding protein crop production is most attractive in south-eastern Austria with its Central European continental climate where maize is most often replaced in crop rotations. However, the acreage of protein crops is limited by agronomically suitable cropland. An intended side effect is the reduction of nitrogen fertilizer inputs by about 0.1% if total protein crop production increases by 1%.  
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  ISSN 0936-577x ISBN Medium  
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Author Ahammad, H.; Heyhoe, E.; Nelson, G.; Sands, R.; Fujimori, S.; Hasegawa, T.; van der Mensbrugghe, D.; Blanc, E.; Havlik, P.; Valin, H.; Kyle, P.; d’Croz, D.M.; Meijl, H.V.; Schmitz, C.; Lotze-Campen, H.; von Lampe, M.; Tabeau, A. openurl 
  Title The Role of International Trade under a Changing Climate: Insights from global economic modelling Type Book Chapter
  Year 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume Issue Pages 293-312  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Rome Editor Elbehri, A.  
  Language Summary Language Original Title  
  Series Editor Series Title Climate Change and Food Systems Abbreviated Series Title  
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  Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial (down) 5001  
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Author Biewald, A.; Lotze-Campen, H.; Otto, I.; Brinckmann, N.; Bodirsky, B.; Weindl, I.; Popp, A.; Schellnhuber, H.J. url  openurl
  Title The Impact of Climate Change on Costs of Food and People Exposed to Hunger at Subnational Scale Type Report
  Year 2015 Publication PIK Report Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 128 Issue Pages 73  
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  Abstract Climate change and socioeconomic developments will have a decisive impact on people exposed to hunger. This study analyses climate change impacts on agriculture and potential implications for the occurrence of hunger under different socioeconomic scenarios for 2030, focusing on the world regions most affected by poverty today: the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a spatially explicit, agroeconomic land-use model to assess agricultural vulnerability to climate change. The aims of our study are to provide spatially explicit projections of climate change impacts on Costs of Food, and to combine them with spatially explicit hunger projections for the year 2030, both under a poverty, as well as a prosperity scenario. Our model results indicate that while average yields decrease with climate change in all focus regions, the impact on the Costs of Food is very diverse. Costs of Food increase most in the Middle East and North Africa, where available agricultural land is already fully utilized and options to import food are limited. The increase is least in Sub-Saharan Africa, since production there can be shifted to areas which are only marginally affected by climate change and imports from other regions increase. South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa can partly adapt to climate change, in our model, by modifying trade and expanding agricultural land. In the Middle East and North Africa, almost the entire population is affected by increasing Costs of Food, but the share of people vulnerable to hunger is relatively low, due to relatively strong economic development in these projections. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Vulnerability to Hunger will persist, but increases in Costs of Food are moderate. While in South Asia a high share of the population suffers from increases in Costs of Food and is exposed to hunger, only a negligible number of people will be exposed at extreme levels. Independent of the region, the impacts of climate change are less severe in a richer and more globalized world. Adverse climate impacts on the Costs of Food could be moderated by promoting technological progress in agriculture. Improving market access would be advantageous for farmers, providing the opportunity to profitably increase production in the Middle East and North Africa as well as in South Asia, but may lead to increasing Costs of Food for consumers. In the long-term perspective until 2080, the consequences of climate change will become even more severe: while in 2030 56% of the global population may face increasing Costs of Food in a poor and fragmented world, in 2080 the proportion will rise to 73%.  
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  Publisher Place of Publication Potsdam Editor  
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  Series Editor Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung Series Title Abbreviated Series Title  
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Author Lotze-Campen, H.; von Witzke, H.; Noleppa, S.; Schwarz, G. url  doi
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  Title Science for food, climate protection and welfare: An economic analysis of plant breeding research in Germany Type Journal Article
  Year 2015 Publication Agricultural Systems Abbreviated Journal Agric. Syst.  
  Volume 136 Issue Pages 79-84  
  Keywords Plant breeding; CO2 emissions; Cost–benefit analysis; Social rate of return; Agricultural research policy  
  Abstract Highlights • We analyze the economic effects of plant breeding research in Germany. • Effects of reduced CO2 emissions due to productivity increases are being quantified. • Expansion of global agricultural area has been reduced by 1–1.5 million ha. • CO2 emissions have been reduced by 160–235 million tons. • German plant breeding research has an economic value of 10.8–15.6 billion EUR. Abstract We analyze the economic effects of plant breeding research in Germany. In addition to market effects, for the first time also effects of reduced CO2 emissions due to productivity increases are being quantified. The analysis shows that investments in German plant breeding research in the period 1991–2010 have reduced the global expansion of agricultural area by 1–1.5 million hectares. This has led to reduced CO2 emissions of 160–235 million tons. The economic value generated by plant breeding research, through increased production and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, is estimated at 10.8–15.6 billion EUR in the same period. This can be translated into a social rate of return on research investment in the range of 40–80% per year. Projections for the period 2011–2030 generate a return rate in the range of 65–140% per year. Investments into plant breeding research in Germany are highly profitable from a societal point of view. At the same time, our results show significant under-investments in agricultural research in Germany. These results provide a good justification for policy-makers to reverse funding cuts for public agricultural research over the last decades and to improve institutional conditions for private research, e.g. through better protection of intellectual property rights.  
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  ISSN 0308521x ISBN Medium  
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  Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial (down) 4999  
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