Climate Change, Water Resources and Irrigated Crop Yields: A Modeling Framework for Integrated Assessment of the US

Elodie Blanc, Erwan Monier, Charles Fant and John Reilly

No 332547, Conference papers from Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project

Abstract: While the impact of climate change on rainfed crop yields has been extensively studied, the study of the effect on irrigated crop yields has been more challenging due to competing water uses. By combining a water model and a crop model within the MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) framework (Sokolov et al., 2005), an integrated assessment of the effects of alternative climate policy scenarios on irrigated crop yields is applied to the United States (US). In this analysis, we consider the effect of water shortage for irrigation on the three most important crops for the U.S.: maize, soybean and spring wheat. We find that water shortage for irrigation is expected to reduce irrigated crop yields especially for maize.

Keywords: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 2014
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