FABIO-The Construction of the Food and Agriculture Biomass Input-Output Model.

ABSTRACT: Harvested biomass is linked to final consumption by networks of processes and actors that convert and distribute food and nonfood goods. Achieving a sustainable resource metabolism of the economy is an overarching challenge which manifests itself in a number of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Modeling the physical dimensions of biomass conversion and distribution networks is essential to understanding the characteristics, drivers, and dynamics of the socio-economic biomass metabolism. In this paper, we present the Food and Agriculture Biomass Input-Output model (FABIO), a set of multiregional supply, use and input-output tables in physical units, that document the complex flows of agricultural and food products in the global economy. The model assembles FAOSTAT statistics reporting c

SUBMITTER: Bruckner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6805042 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature