climate change | MAGNET

Presentation of MAGNET Food and Nutrition Security results at Oxford University seminar on ‘Global Shortages in a Changing Climate’.

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Saeed Moghayer was an invited speaker to ‘Global Shortages in a Changing Climate’ seminar at Oxford University to present and diescuss MAGNET foresight modelling foresight scenario results on food and nutrition security on May 12th.

BrightSpace proposal has reached the stage of grant agreement preparation

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The BrightSpace project, coordinated by Wageningen Economic Research was selected for funding within the Horizon Europe funding schema. The objective of BrightSpace is to design effective and sustainable strategies for assessing and addressing the challenges of EU agriculture to navigate within a safe and just operating space, including planetary boundaries. BrightSpace will provide a set of analytical instruments to experiment, analyse, and coordinate the effects of innovative governance structures and policies related to agriculture to navigate within a safe and just operating space. The project is expected to run from end of 2022 till end of 2027 and features 14 different partners from all over Europe, among others including: Wageningen Economic Research (NLD), Von Thuenen Institute (DEU), International Institure for Applied Systems Analysis (AUT), European Center for Agricultural, Regional and Environmental Policy Research (DEU) and Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (ESP).

ForestNavigator Proposal Has Reached the Stage of Grant Agreement Preparation

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Economic losses from soil erosion by water

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Soil isn’t the only thing that we are losing from erosion. A new study estimates $8 billion in global economic losses caused by soil erosion reducing crop yields and increasing water usage.

Climate change is making soil erosion worse. And certain countries are paying the price.

Under climate change, there are many more dry days interspersed by heavy rains. This leads to conditions where soil is more easily washed away during the strong rains. Land use change by humans exacerbates soil erosion by water, often by clearing out vegetation that help hold soil together. Steep surfaces (think hills) can also contribute to the problem.

Researchers from the European Union Joint Research Centre coupled two models, RUSLE and MAGNET, to estimate economic losses from soil erosion by water. They found that $8 billion is lost annually from global GDP. Worldwide, food production is reduced by 33.7 million tons of food. The study is unique in that the researchers were able to capture losses from structural economic change as a result of shifts in primary resources, like land quality. Previous studies simply calculated crop less and multiplied it by market values. Moreover, this study was the first to apply this method on a global scale.

Source: Forbes

AgCLIM50-1

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Challenges of Global Agriculture in a Climate Change context (AgCLIM50) is funded by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and implemented by the ENgAGE (Expert Network for Agro-Economic modelling) consortium represented by Wageningen Economic Research. Active members of the consortium include:

Wageningen Economic Research (co-ordinating), The Hague, Netherlands
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), The Hague, Netherlands.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany.
EuroCARE GmbH

AgCLIM50 research is a joint effort by members of the ENgAGE consortium with active support from JRC staff to design the study and interprete results.

The first study analyses the global impacts of climate change on agricultural production, prices, trade, consumption and the potential for emission mitigation/adaptation strategies. For this purpose a set of 12 scenarios has been simulated that differed by:

SSP 1, 2, or 3
Climate shocks according to RCP2.6 or RCP 6.0.
Moderate mitigation aiming at the 2 degree target

Scenario results were compared between the models involved according to a reporting template.

Contact: Hans van Meijl

Publications: Van Meijl et al. (2018)