Farm-level modelling : techniques, applications and policy / edited by: Shailesh Shrestha (Agricultural Economist, SRUC (Scotland's Rural College), Edinburgh, UK), Andrew Barnes (Reader in Innovation and Behavioural Change, SRUC, Edinburgh, UK), and Bouda Vosough Ahmadi (Agricultural Economist, SRUC, Edinburgh, UK).

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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2016Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations (some color), chartsContent type:

text

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computer

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9781786390387

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Farm-level modelling.DDC classification:

338.101/1 23

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HD1433 .F37 2016eb

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Contents:

Policy Impact Assessment / Maria Blanco -- Positive Mathematical Programming / Filippo Arfini, Michele Donati, Roberto Solazzo and Mario Veneziani -- Modelling Farm-level Adaptations Under External Shocks / Shailesh Shrestha and Bouda Vosough Ahmadi -- Farm-level Modelling, Risk and Uncertainty / Stephen Ramsden and Paul Wilson -- Modelling Farm-level Biosecurity Management / Arnaud Rault and David A. Hennessy -- Modelling Farm Efficiency / Patrick Gillespie, Fiona Thorne, Thia Hennessy, Stephen Hynes and Cathal O'Donoghue -- Quantifying Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Identifying Cost-effective Mitigation Measures / Michael MacLeod and Vera Eory -- Moving Beyond the Farm: Representing Farms in Regional Modelling / Jinxiu Ding, Bruce A. McCarl and Weiwei Wang -- Farm-level Microsimulation Models / Cathal O'Donoghue -- Scaling Up and Out: Agent-based Modelling to Include Farmer Regimes / Andrew P. Barnes, Eleonore Guillem and Dave Murray-Rust -- Catchment-level Modelling / Joana Guimarães Ferreira, Patrick Abbot and Andrew P. Barnes -- Modelling Food Supply Chains / Cesar Revoredo-Giha -- Linkage of a Farm Group Model to a Partial Equilibrium Model / Alexander Gocht, Pavel Ciaian, Maria Espinosa and Sergio Gomez y Paloma -- Conclusions: The State-of-the-art of Farm Modelling and Promising Directions / Thomas Heckelei.

Abstract: The 14 chapters in this book provide an introduction to the techniques used and the issues addressed by farm-level models. They underline the potential that exists to generate new insights and guidance for policy makers as these models come to be more widely used. The book is split into two discrete parts based on loosely defined spatial distinctions. Part 1 concerns itself with assessment at the farm level and the various approaches used for this. From the farm-level assessments we may have indications of how particular farms may respond to changes or challenges, and in some instances these will be either typical or average farms reflective of the study region. Part 2 focuses on how to aggregate these results to reflect a wider set of farming responses at a catchment, national or even supranational level.

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The 14 chapters in this book provide an introduction to the techniques used and the issues addressed by farm-level models. They underline the potential that exists to generate new insights and guidance for policy makers as these models come to be more widely used. The book is split into two discrete parts based on loosely defined spatial distinctions. Part 1 concerns itself with assessment at the farm level and the various approaches used for this. From the farm-level assessments we may have indications of how particular farms may respond to changes or challenges, and in some instances these will be either typical or average farms reflective of the study region. Part 2 focuses on how to aggregate these results to reflect a wider set of farming responses at a catchment, national or even supranational level.

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