Evaluating the effects of climate change on US agricultural systems: sensitivity to regional impact and trade expansion scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Agriculture is one of the sectors that is expected to be most significantly impacted by climate change. There has been considerable interest in assessing these impacts and many recent studies investigating agricultural impacts for individual countries and regions using an array of models. However, the great majority of existing studies explore impacts on a country or region of interest without explicitly accounting for impacts on the rest of the world. This approach can bias the results of impact assessments for agriculture given the importance of global trade in this sector. Due to potential impacts on relative competitiveness, international trade, global supply, and prices, the net impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector in each region depend not only on productivity impacts

SUBMITTER: Baker JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7061454 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature