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The impacts of climate change on
agriculture are projected to be significant in coming
decades, so response strategies, and their likely costs,
should be evaluated now. That is why this study produced an
open-access, crop-climate-economic impact modeling platform
for Latin America and the Caribbean, that can be extended to
other regions, then modified and improved by users as new
crop, climate, and economic datasets become available. The
new platform projects the likely impacts of agroclimatic
factors on crop productivity, on the basis of climate
projections from two general circulation models, and couples
it with an economic model to derive and evaluate a range of
climate-change scenarios and likely agricultural
productivity and economic impacts over the next several decades.
