An EC funded programme on “Linking information and decision making to improve food security” (GCP/GLO/243/EC)

Dear colleagues,

under an EC funded programme on “Linking information and decision making to improve food security” (GCP/GLO/243/EC), we are preparing a set of tools to asses climate change impacts at the national level. The procedure will be roughly based on a recent study we did on impacts in Morocco. The study is downloadable from

ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/SD/Reserved/Agromet/WB_FAO_morocco_CC_yield_impact/report/WB_Morocco_20091013.pdf


We will publish an integrated toolbox, that will provide methods, tutorials, software, and sample data that can be used for training at the national level, and that should enable trainees (from various technical sectors) to jointly carry out an impact study covering the spectrum from climate scenario outputs to impacts on agriculture to economic impacts.

We are very ignorant about economic impacts.

What we are interested in advice on an existing simulation tool that would read projected yields grids (with a measure of yield variability), from now to 2100, and help users estimate economic impacts. The model should understand such things as labour availability, urban demand, land availability, water availability for irrigation, maybe local transportation costs (but here I am already overstepping my competence!)

We would then include such a model in our toolbox, and request it's developer to work with us in customizing it so that it fits nicely into the box. After the toolbox is finalised, we'll carry out two pilot studies in Africa.

If you are familiar with the kind of models we are interested in (maybe along the lines of CGE or variants), be so kind and drop a line to François Delobel (francois.delobel@fao.org), and provide a simple description of the model, or an internet link where we can find the info in layman's terms.

Many thanks

Rene Gommes (FAO)