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The adverse effects of extreme disasters on crop production, often assessed using crop models or field experiments, may be overestimated as these methods focus on natural impacts while ignoring the behavioral changes of farmers and international traders. This study takes barley as an example and uses GTAP model (a global economic equilibrium model) to showcase the role of the behavioral changes and to assess the economic impact of climate change on crop production after the occurrence of most extreme disasters. The results show that under RCP 8.5, the impact of extreme disasters on barley yields in China and Australia are –12% and –25.8%, respectively. After considering farmers and international traders’ behavioral change, the effects of climate change on barley production in China and Australia are reduced to –0.38% and –3.5%, respectively. Variations in production level mainly depend on the extent of farmers’ ability to expand barley sown area and the severity of government intervention in agricultural exports. In order to reduce the impact of disasters on food supply, it is necessary to give full play to the role of market mechanisms and to reduce government interventions in trade.
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The authors thank Professor Erda Lin, Wei Xiong, and Jie Pan’s team from China Academy of Agriculture Sciences for their contribution to providing simulation data on physical yield changes using ESM and DASSAT. The authors also thank Professor Adam Rose, Yasuhide Okuyama, and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments to improve this write-up.
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Xie, W., Cui, Q., Ali, T. (2019). The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Grain Production and Policy Implications: A CGE Model Analysis. In: Okuyama, Y., Rose, A. (eds) Advances in Spatial and Economic Modeling of Disaster Impacts. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16237-5_14
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