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Agent-Based Modelling of Vulnerable Food Systems

This briefing paper looks at using agent-based modelling concepts and techniques for the investigation of food system vulnerability to global environmental change.

Thomas E. Downing, Sukaina Bharwani / Published on 1 August 2004
Citation

Warwick, C., S. Bharwani and T.E. Downing. (2004). Agent-Based Modelling of Vulnerable Food Systems. SEI Poverty and Vulnerability Programme/GECAFS Briefing Paper, SEI, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2004, 2pp.

The actors in a food system are represented by agents in a computer model – responding to the environment, managing resources and learning from their experiences and each other. Thus, the particular vulnerabilities of local communities can be related to the general drivers of the stresses and shocks in social, economic and environmental change.

SEI authors

Sukaina Bharwani

Senior Research Fellow and weADAPT Director

SEI Oxford

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