INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE (IIASA)

IIASA provides research and technology infrastructure, conducts research and tests/validates approaches and ideas.
IIASA contributes to the consortium with expertise in dealing with agricultural and environmental research and data collection and building agricultural models at different scales. Its scientists have state-of-the-art knowledge on operationalization of the SJOS indicators and its determinants in EU agriculture over the last 20 years. They have expertise on various aspects of the safe space in relation to agricultural markets and biodiversity.
Furthermore, they have extensive experience in machine learning techniques applied to improve the parameterization and calibration of the new models. At IIASA, excellent expertise is available on supply side drivers such as technology and structural change, and on demand side drivers such as consumer diets and preferences. Expertise on policy drivers, including trade and, climate and environmental policies is also present.
IIASA hosts and is a key contributor of GLOBIOM, a partial equilibrium global model to assess competition for land use between agriculture, bioenergy, and forestry. IIASA has a long-
standing experience in applying models to analyze sustainability impacts of policies and events affecting European agriculture at scales and at various levels of aggregation (from local to global and from individual farm to sector to economy as a whole).
IIASA has experience and expertise in policy advice at different levels of policy making. It has experience with facilitating stakeholder processes with representatives of agricultural and related policies, industry, NGOs and science.
IIASA also contributes to communicating about the project and disseminating its results.