kwabenaOwusu/BioenergyFoodConflictABM

Agents-Based model developed to investigate the spatial land-use conflict that emerge from farmers’ decisions to cultivate bioenergy crop and the implications of the obtained land-use conflict on food security for the Brong-Ahafo region (i.e. Bono, Ahafo, Bono-East), Ghana. # *Bioenergy crops versus food crops: An agent-based modelling study of land-use conflict in Ghana.* ## Purpose We developed a spatially explicit model to investigate land-use conflicts between food and bioenergy crop cultivation in the Bono region, Ghana. Specifically, we investigate the competing interests between bioenergy companies and farmers and the factors that may drive Ghanaian farmers' decision to cultivate Jatropha and the implications for food security in the country. We are currently using the spatially explicit model as a computational laboratory to examine the consequences of different socio-cognitive behaviours of the various players involved and explore the local farmers’ adaptive responses to different socioeconomic conditions, as well as the associated effects on food security. Spatial and temporal dynamics of food and bioenergy crop cultivation in Brong-Ahafo region, Ghana.