CAPRI_model
The CAPRI (Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact) model is a tool for ex-ante impact assessment of agricultural and international trade policies with a focus on the European Union. As an economic partial comparative static equilibrium model for agriculture, its core consists of two interlinked modules: the supply module, covering about 280 regional aggregate programming models covering the EU27, Norway and Western Balkans at the NUTS 2 level and the market module, a global spatial multi-commodity model for about 50 agricultural commodities, which together allow calculation of a wide range of economic and environmental indicators.[1] A spatial downscaling component allows impact assessment at the 1x1 km grid level for EU27.[2] CAPRI is written in GAMS and steered by a Graphical User Interface realized in Java.
CAPRI was developed and improved in a suite of EU funded research projects (CAPRI, CAP-STRAT, CAPRI-Dynaspat). Past applications include analysis of different reform steps of the Common Agricultural Policy such as Agenda 2000,[3] Decoupling (2003)[4] or sugar market reform (2005-2006)[5] and environmental impact analysis such as a trading scheme for Green House Gases from agriculture.[6]