BC3. Basque centre for climate change – Klima aldaketa ikergai

Klimagune Summer School Training Caravan Seminars UPV BC3

GIFTS

GLOBAL INTERLINKAGES IN FOOD TRADE SYSTEMS
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Food demand is largely met with imports, connecting producers to consumers through global supply chains. The GIFTS project examines the land use spillovers and GHG emissions from future food demand scenarios by considering trade-mediated teleconnections between food consumption, agricultural expansion, and climate change. GIFTS builds on a physical multi-regional input-output (MRIO) model that will be extended to include emissions from agricultural production and land use change, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. The overall goal is to assist policy-making and inform consumers’ decisions towards more resilient, circular, and sustainable agro-food systems towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

The methodology departs from a physical Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model developed by the host institution, with an unprecedented level of detail in agro-food products. The researchers propose to improve this model by developing environmental extensions with spatially-explicit carbon stocks across land uses and greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production. Co-product flows between crop, livestock and energy sectors will also be implemented to represent reuse and recovery. The extended MRIO table will be used to assess the mitigation potential of climate change adaptation strategies along global supply chains, considering increased resource efficiency and land use change. The project involves training on the application of MRIO analysis for environmental evaluation as well as in spatial analysis at the host institution. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is involved in the secondment, providing training on the estimation of livestock emissions and fostering inter-sectoral research exchange between academia and decision-makers. Overall, GIFTS can greatly promote the interdisciplinary research career for providing science-based evidence to assist policy-making towards a more resilient, sustainable and circular society in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Start date: 2022-09-01

 

End date: 2024-08-31

 

Call:  H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

 

 

Key people involved in BC3:

Neus Escobar

Iñaki Arto

 
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  GIFTS has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant Agreement no. 101029457.

 







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