Regional Environment and Agriculture Programming Model (REAP)

by Robert Johansson, Mark Peters, and Robert House

The Regional Environment and Agriculture Programming Model (REAP), facilitates scenario-or "what if"-analyses by showing how changes in technology, commodity supply or demand, or farm, resource, environmental, or trade policy could affect a host of performance indicators important to decisionmakers and stakeholders. This report describes its theoretical and modeling system specification and the data used by REAP, and serves as a user guide for setting up and running model simulations.

Keywords: Soil conservation, environmental policy, water quality, irrigation policy, climate change, livestock waste management, wetlands, alternative fuels, crop, animal disease, regional effects, trade

In this publication...

• Entire Report
• Report summary
• Abstract, Acknowledgments, Contents, and Summary
• Introduction
• Model Environment
• Model Data
• Figures
• References
• Appendix A: Installing and Using REAP
• Appendix B: Environmental Parameters
• Appendix C: Accessing REAP and Contributing to Model Design