Priority Research Topics

• Outlooks and Scenario Development
• Climate Change
• Bioenergy and Food Security
• Strategic Technology Evaluation

Research Methods

• Design and implementation of long-term scenario analyses
• Spatial characterization of socio-economic drivers of change, production and consumption, natural resource availability, and human vulnerability
• Biophysically-based models of production, resource allocation, and land use:

• Agronomic crop growth simulation models (i.e. DSSAT, ORYZA, APSIM, WOFOST)
• High-resolution global models of hydrologic flow
• Spatially-explicit models of agricultural and non-agricultural land use

• Economic and statistical evaluation tools:

• International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT)
• Dynamic Research EvaluAtion for Management (DREAM)
• Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models
• Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM)