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OECD Expert Meeting on Climate Change, Agriculture and Land Use:
Matching Modelling Approaches to Policy Questions

OECD Conference Centre, Paris, France
9 February 2011

This meeting explored the role of policy in addressing issues related to climate change, agriculture and land use, both in the context of GHG mitigation and of farmer adaptation to climate change. The aim of the meeting was to have a clear idea of the policy questions OECD should be focusing on, and the appropriate analytical tools to address such questions.

• Agenda

Session 1:

• EU Commission Workshop on Climate Change and Agriculture of 07-08 February 2011 - Résumé
  Christine Moeller, DG Climate Action, European Commission
  
  
• Preliminary Policy Questions for Discussion
  Wilfrid Legg, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD

Session 2:

• The Economics of Climate Change: Appropriateness of Partial and General Equilibrium Approaches
  Sherman Robinson (IFPRI)
  
  
• The Economics of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: Ongoing Work using Ricardian Approaches
  Emanuele Massetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC)
  
  
• Insights for Climate Change Policy from Agent-Based Modeling of Land Use 
  Christian Troost (University of Hohenheim)

Session 3:

• Ongoing Work on Risk Management and Climate Change
  Andrea Cattaneo, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD
  
  
• Introducing Land Use in OECD’s ENV-Linkages Model
  Rob Dellink, Environment Directorate, OECD
  
  
• Effects of GHG Mitigation Policies on Global Agriculture: A CGE Approach
  Ben Henderson, FAO
  
  
• Using Medium-term Models to Analyze GHG Emission Mitigation Policies in Agriculture
  Ignacio Pérez Domínguez, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD

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