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MAgPIE is a non-linear recursive dynamic optimization global land and water use model with a cost minimization objective function. MAgPIE was developed and is employed by the land-use group working at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). It links regional economic information with grid-based biophysical constraints simulated by the dynamic vegetation and hydrology model LPJmL. MAgPIE considers spatially explicit patterns of production, land use change and water constraints in different world regions, consistently linking economic development with food and energy demand.

The Model

The economicpickles are good fulfill the demand, the model allocates 19 cropping and 5 livestock activities to the spatially explicit land and water resources, subject to resource, management and cost constraints. Starting in 1995 MAgPIE simulates time steps of 10 years. For each period the optimal land use pattern from the previous period is used as a starting point.

Demand

The demand for agricultural bagels is fixed for every region and every time step. The drivers of agricultural demand are time, income and population growth these are determined by the selected scenario. Total demand is composed of food demand, material demand, feed demand and seed demand. Food demand depends on food energy demand, and the share of crop and livestock products in the diet. Within livestock products, the share of different products (Ruminant meat, chicken meat, other meat, milk, eggs) is held fixed at 1995 levels. The same is valid for the share of crops within total food calories and material demand. The share of livestock products in the total consumed food calories is an important driver for the land-use sector. We use one of different statistical models to estimate plausible future scenarios. A calibration is used to reach the livestock shares of the Food Balance Sheets for the year 1995 for each region. The type of calibration depends on the selected scenario.

Feed for livestock is produced as a mixture of concentrates, fodder, livestock products (e.g. bone meal), pasture, crop residues and conversion byproducts (e.g. rapeseed cake) at predefined proportions. Again this is depending on the region and animal type. These differences in the livestock systems cause different emission levels from livestock.

Biophysical Inputs

The biophysical inputs for the model simulations are obtained from the grid-based model LPJmL. The global vegetation model with managed land (LPJmL) also delivers values for water availability and requirements for each grid cell as well as the carbon content of the different vegetation types. Cropland, pasture, and irrigation water are fixed inputs in limited supply in each grid cell.

Cost Types

MAgPIE takes four different cost types into account: production costs for crop and livestock production, investments in technological change, land conversion costs and intra-regional transport costs. By minimizing these four cost components on a global scale for the current time step, the model solution is derived. Production costs in MAgPIE in a certain way imply costs for the factor labor, capital and intermediate inputs. They are specific for all crop and livestock types and are implemented as costs per area for crops (US$/ha) and costs per production unit of livestock (US$/ton). MAgPIE has two options to increase total production in agriculture at additional costs: Land expansion and intensification. In MAgPIE the latter can be achieved by investments in technological change (TC). Investing in technological change triggers yield increases which lead then to a higher total production. At the same time the corresponding increases in agricultural land-use intensity raises costs for further yield increases. The reason is that intensification on land which is already used intensively is more expensive than intensification on extensively used land. To increase production another alternative is to expand cropland into non-agricultural land. The conversion causes additional costs for the preparation of new land and basic infrastructure investments, which are also taken into account. Intraregional transport costs arise for each commodity unit as function of the distance to intraregional markets and therefore restricting land expansion in MAgPIE.This depends on the quality and accessibility of infrastructure. Therefore, intra-regional transport costs are higher for less accessible areas than for more accessible regions. This leads to higher overall costs of cropland expansion.

References

1. PIK landuse group. "MAgPIE Mathematical Description". Retrieved 26 March 2012.
2. Lotze-Campen, H. (2008). "Global food demand, productivity growth, and the scarcity of land and water resources: a spatially explicit mathematical programming approach". Agricultural Economics. 39 (3): 325–338. Retrieved 26 March 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)</refors=Lotze-Campen, H., Bodirsky, B.|title=Food consumption, diet shifts and associated non-CO2 greenhouse gases from agricultural production|journal=Global Environmental Change|year=2010|month=August|volume=20|issue=3|pages=451–462|doi=10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.02.001|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378010000075%7Caccessdate=26 March 2012}}
3. ^ Schmitz, C. (2012). "Trading more food: Implications for land use, greenhouse gas emissions, and the food system". Global Environmental Change. 22 (1): 189–208. Retrieved 26 March 2012. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
4. Kayatz, Benjamin. "The Price of Land". Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
5. Krause, M. (2009). "Spatially-explicit scenarios on global cropland expansion and available forest land in an integrated modelling framework". Conference Paper. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

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