Modelling food policies and food production.

Abstract

The Centre for World Food Studies in Amsterdam is developing economic policy models focussing on food and agriculture, and incorporating detailed agronomic information. The structure of these national models is such that they can be linked in order to analyse international trade. The developing country models emphasize and analyse the problem of hunger and poverty through the role of agronomic and livestock constraints, the changes in the distribution of income between agriculture and non-agriculture as well as within agriculture. Model alternatives can be analysed through changes in various parameters, such as direct and indirect tax rates, tariffs, buffer stocks, import and export quotas. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)