The Impact of Water Scarcity on Food, Bioenergy and Deforestation

We evaluate the impact of explicitly representing irrigated land and water scarcity in an economy-wide model on food prices, bioenergy production and deforestation both with and without a global carbon policy. The analysis develops supply functions of irrigable land from a water resource model resol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Winchester, N., Ledvina, K., Strzepek, K., Reilly, J.M.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111800