EIGER-Ag

Exploiting Information on Global Environmental Risks – Agriculture

Abstract

EIGER-Ag has two objectives:
1. To enhance the knowledge of and data available on land suitability and yield of key agricultural raw materials under climate change conditions.
2. To serve as a pilot project for using spatially-referenced data sets to assist decision making and to improve environmental risk assessments.

EIGER-Ag will draw on the existing Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZ)
methodology, which was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) and IIASA iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/GAEZ

Persons in charge

Frank Ewert

Runtime

2006 - 2009

Funding

Unilever

Cooperating partners

Unilever, Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Wageningen University

Publications

Teixeira, E., G. Fischer, H. van Velthuizen, F. Ewert, R. van Dingenen, F. Dentener, G. Mills, 2009. Risks of surface ozone damage for food supply: Assessing potential impacts and adaptation options for soybean crops at global and regional scales. International Congress on Climate Change "Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions", 10-12 March 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark.