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The Middle East, North Africa, and Climate Change

Project name/title

Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Economic Development Opportunities in North Africa: Case of Morocco and Tunisia

Year:

2010

Theme:

Economic Policy and Good Governance

Abstract:

Sustaining development in developing countries has never been as complicated a task as it is today in the face of a world characterized by tremendous competition over resources that are becoming scarcer. Climate change and its impact on water resources and agriculture, is one of the major problems facing developing countries in Africa. The research effort in this project will aim to measure the impact of climate change directly on agriculture, and indirectly through its linkages with other sectors. It will also examine the impacts of alternative mitigation policies. To achieve these objectives, an integrated methodological approach will be used. We will integrate two modeling frameworks that have been applied successfully on a wide range of problems: the GTAP model and the IMPACT-WATER model. The aim is to provide not only a country-based analysis, but to create analytical tools that can be applied in other countries and regions.

Keywords:

General equilibrium, climate change, North Africa, water allocation, sustainable development, welfare impact, mitigation policy

Contact:

External Project Director:
Wallace E. Tyner (Purdue University)

UNU-WIDER focal point:
Imed Drine, Research Fellow

Project Assistant:
Anne Ruohonen

Conferences

• 6 December 2011 Conference: Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture. Rabat, Morocco, 6-7 December, 2011.

Workshops

• 20 January 2011 Workshop: Climate Change Impacts on Moroccan Agriculture
• 10 April 2012 Workshop: Unemployment in Tunisia: What do we know? Where do we go? Tunis, Tunisia

Publications:

• Article: Institutions, governance and technology catch-up in North Africa
• Climate Change Compounding Risks in North Africa
• Climate Variability and Agricultural Productivity in MENA region
• Report: Workshop on employment in Tunisia: What do we know? What is the way forward?

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Further Reading

‘Institutions, governance and technology catch-up in North Africa’, published in Economic Modelling journal. The article results from the MENA project.