10.6084/m9.figshare.1011570.v1
Uris Lantz C Baldos
Uris
Lantz C Baldos
Thomas W Hertel
Thomas
W Hertel
Per annum growth rates of exogenous drivers for the historical period 1961–2006
IOP Publishing
2013
climate change impacts
annum growth rates
time series estimates
simple
crop price
crop production
land use change
cropland use
model
Environmental Science
2013-08-29 00:00:00
Dataset
https://iop.figshare.com/articles/dataset/___Per_annum_growth_rates_of_exogenous_drivers_for_the_historical_period_1961_2006/1011570
<p><b>Table 1.</b>
Per annum growth rates of exogenous drivers for the historical period 1961–2006.
</p> <p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>Global agricultural models are becoming indispensable in the debate over climate change impacts and mitigation policies. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly important to validate these models and identify critical areas for improvement. In this letter, we illustrate both the opportunities and the challenges in undertaking such model validation, using the SIMPLE model of global agriculture. We look back at the long run historical period 1961–2006 and, using a few key historical drivers—population, incomes and total factor productivity—we find that SIMPLE is able to accurately reproduce historical changes in cropland use, crop price, crop production and average crop yields at the global scale. Equally important is our investigation into how the specific assumptions embedded in many agricultural models will likely influence these results. We find that those global models which are largely biophysical—thereby ignoring the price responsiveness of demand and supply—are likely to understate changes in crop production, while failing to capture the changes in cropland use and crop price. Likewise, global models which incorporate economic responses, but do so based on limited time series estimates of these responses, are likely to understate land use change and overstate price changes.</p>