DOCUMENTATION: agricultural sector model EPICA (The Evaluation of Policy Impacts – Climate and Agriculture Model)

DOCUMENTATION: agricultural sector model EPICA (The Evaluation of Policy Impacts – Climate and Agriculture Model)

DOCUMENTATION: agricultural sector model EPICA (The Evaluation of Policy Impacts – Climate and Agriculture Model)

We are pleased to publish the technical documentation of the agricultural sector model EPICA (The Evaluation of Policy Impacts – Climate and Agriculture Model), thus extending the information package concerning models built at the Centre for Climate and Energy Analysis (CAKE) available on our website.

• The main task of the model is to analyse the impacts of climate and energy policy on agriculture.

• The EPICA model consists of two integrated modules – market module and farm module – combining a partial equilibrium approach with linear farm activity optimisation programming. This enables the simulation of a proper supply-demand balance of goods produced in the agricultural sector, as well as provides a detailed disaggregation of analysed farm activities.

• The construction of the EPICA model supports interaction with other CAKE analytical tools, including in particular the d-PLACE model and the MEESA model.

• Documentation for EPICA model is available in english:

    CAKE_EPICA_model_documentation_.pdf (1.7 MiB, 1,555 hits)