Economic Tools and Methods for the Analysis of Global Change Impacts on Agriculture and Food Security

Part I: Microeconomic modelling: Risk management, adaptation measures and stakeholders' perception.- Ch.1. Crop Production functions and efficiency models: Climate change and water adaptation policy over competitiveness and social disparities of crop production in the Mediterranean.- Ch.2.Using ecological modelling tools to inform policy makers of potential changes in crop distribution: an example with cacao crops in Latin America.- Ch.3.The effects of climate change on poverty and income distribution: A case study for rural Mexico.- Ch.4. The value of meteorological information in agrarian producers' decision making: introducing analytic decision models.- Ch.5. Participatory process: Approaches for assessing farmer behavior towards adopting climate change adaptation strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Part II: Macroeconomic and Complexity Modelling: Global challenges and multi-agent interactions in Mitigation and Adaptation Policy analysis.- Ch.6. CGE models in environmental policy analysis: A review and Spanish case study.- Ch.7. General equilibrium models: A computable general equilibrium model to analyze the effects of an extended drought on economic sectors in México.- Ch.8. Costs and benefits of Adaptation: "Economic appraisal of adaptation options for the agriculture sector.- Ch.9. The impacts of climate change on crop yields in Tanzania: comparing an empirical and a process-based model.- Ch.10. Development of a prioritization tool for climate change adaptation measures in the forestry sector - A Nicaraguan case study.