Input-Output Global Hybrid Analysis of Agricultural Primary Production (IO-GHAAP) Database

A commonly used method to examine the relationship between global water consumption and production is input--output analysis. However, between approximately 70% and 90% of freshwater consumption occurs in agricultural primary production, which is often represented by only a small percentage of the total number of sectors in input-output databases. In addition, the assessment of the impact of water consumption is usually carried out at the national level.

Therefore, the primary objective of the Input-Output Global Hybrid Analysis of Agricultural Primary Production (IO-GHAAP) approach was to improve assessments of water use and its impacts in input-output analysis.

To achieve this objective, a global spatial model of agricultural primary production MapSPAM (IFPRI, 2019) was integrated into the existing input-output database GLORIA (Lenzen et al., 2017, 2021) via prorating. The resulting IO-GHAAPP approach includes (1) a disaggregated input-output database and novel environmental extensions for freshwater consumption and scarcity. The IO-GHAAPP database consists of 150 categories and 164 regions, resulting in a total of 24,600 region-category combinations. Forty-two of the categories are dedicated to agricultural primary production (28%). In comparison, the source input--output data consist of 120 categories and 164 regions, resulting in a total of 19,680 region-category combinations, of which 14 are dedicated to agricultural primary production (12%).

Please cite as:

Bunsen, Jonas, Vlad Coroamă, and Matthias Finkbeiner. 2023. ‘Input-Output Global Hybrid Analysis of Agricultural Primary Production (IO-GHAAPP) Database’. Sustainability 15 (2). https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129351.

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