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ambrosia: An R package for calculating and analyzing food demand that is responsive to changing incomes and prices

Journal Article · · Journal of Open Source Software
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.02890· OSTI ID:1925235

The ambrosia R package was developed to calculate food demand for staples and non-staple commodities that is responsive to changing levels of incomes and prices. ambrosia implements the framework to quantify food demand as established by Edmonds et al. (Edmonds et al. 2017) and allows the user to explore and estimate different variables related to the food demand system. Currently ambrosia provides 3 main functions: (1) calculation of food demand for any given set of parameters including income levels and prices (2) estimation of parameters within a given a dataset. Note: ambrosia is used to calculate parameters for the food demand model implemented in the Global Change Analysis Model(GCAM) (3) exploration and preparation of raw data before starting a parameter estimation

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1925235
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-157944
Journal Information:
Journal of Open Source Software, Journal Name: Journal of Open Source Software Journal Issue: 59 Vol. 6; ISSN 2475-9066
Publisher:
Open Source Initiative - NumFOCUSCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship journal March 2016
Monte Carlo sampling methods using Markov chains and their applications journal April 1970
A Global food Demand Model for the Assessment of Complex Human-Earth Systems journal November 2017
GCAM v5.1: representing the linkages between energy, water, land, climate, and economic systems journal January 2019

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