| Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9789251006337 |
Nonformal general equilibrium, consistency approaches and frameworks. General, systems simulation approach. Linear programming models. Multi-level planning models. Operational usefluness of analysis and models to users.
| Author | : World Bank |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2007-10-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0821368095 |
The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.
| Author | : Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2008-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0821371282 |
The book highlights proceedings from the Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development conference held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008.
| Author | : Gregory J. Scott |
| Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781555876098 |
The authors go beyond the traditional presentation of economic principles, offering instead a series of applied methods for data collection and analysis. Drawing on extensive experience in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, they not only describe specific procedures, but also provide a wealth of illustrative research results. This book will be particularly useful to teaching professionals, development specialists, and applied researchers working in developing countries.
| Author | : Inderjit Singh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Agricultural industries |
| ISBN | : |
This book presents the basic model of an agricultural household that underlies most of the case studies undertaken so far. The model assumes that households are price-takers and is therefore recursive. The decisions modeled include those affecting production and the demand for inputs and those affecting consumption and the supply of labor. Comparative results on selected elasticities are presented for a number of economies. The empirical significance of the approach is demonstrated in a comparison of models that treat production and consumption decisions separately and those in which the decisionmaking process is recursive. The book summarizes the implications of agricultural pricing policy for the welfare of farm households, marketed surplus, the demand for nonagricultural goods and services, the rural labor market, budget revenues, and foreign exchange earnings. In addition, it is shown that the basic model can be extended in order to explore the effects of government policy on crop composition, nutritional status, health, saving, and investment and to provide a more comprehensive analysis of the effects on budget revenues and foreign exchange earnings. Methodological topics, primarily the data requirements of the basic model and its extensions, along with aggregation, market interaction, uncertainty, and market imperfections are discussed. The most important methodological issues - the question of the recursive property of these models - is also discussed.
| Author | : Joachim Von Braun |
| Publisher | : International Food Policy Research Insitute |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Subsistence production: a sign of market failure. Commercialization cannot be left to the market. Household effects of commercialization. Nutrition effects of commercialization. Policy action needed.
| Author | : Richard W. Haynes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Forests and forestry |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Robinson, Sherman |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2021-12-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
The International Food Policy Research Institute’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) supports analysis of long-term challenges and opportunities for food, agriculture, and natural resources at global and regional scales. IMPACT is continually being updated and improved to better inform the choices that decisionmakers face today. This document describes a new country-level version of the model. IMPACT-SIMM (International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade–Standard IFPRI Multimarket Model) is a partial equilibrium, multi-market, simulation model of the production, supply, and demand of agricultural commodities within a country or group of countries. It simulates the operation of agricultural markets, solving for equilibrium prices within a country and, in multi-country mode, global markets. It is designed to be a “portable” and potentially open-source version of the IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute) IMPACT3 model documented in Robinson et al. (2015). IMPACT-SIMM shares model specification, equations, and computer code with IMPACT3, but is designed to be more flexible in application. It allows users to specify a standard multi-market model at any level of aggregation by commodities and countries by changing data inputs, without any change in model code. This model system supports longer-term scenario analysis to provide researchers and policymakers with a flexible tool to assess and compare the potential effects of changes in biophysical systems, socioeconomic trends, technologies, and policies at the level of individual countries or groups of countries.
