Forecasting In Agricultural Articles & Analysis: Older
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The struggle for water management predicts to increase due to population expansion, urbanization, and climate change, with a particular impact on agriculture. By 2050, the world's population will reach over 10 billion people. Whether urban or rural, this population will require food to fulfill its necessities. When combined with the increased consumption of calories and more complex foods that ...
Considering food pricing as a strategy to improve dietary needs is growing in popularity. There have been strong indications that it works to use economic measures and price incentives to promote healthy eating. One of the top concerns when considering availability and pricing is the constant change in growth conditions. It can be difficult not knowing how prices will fluctuate based on market ...
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In this paper, the calibration and prediction capacity of a supply response positive mathematical programming model (PMP) for the Alentejo region are evaluated. The model is calibrated with prices and agricultural subsidies of the base year (2000), using the specification rules of the cost function standard, Paris standard, average cost and exogenous elasticities. Then, the model is utilised for ...
Last year, Zimbabwe produced only 700,000 metric tons of maize despite good rains and predictions by Agriculture Minister Joseph Made of a bumper 1.8 million ton crop. But surveys are unnecessary to tell the sad story of Mugabe's land reforms. ...
Land use and cover change are very complex phenomena, based on relationships among environmental, social and economic factors. Moreover, its analysis could be highly valuable for predicting the effects of land use change and for planning a policy intervention able to steer agricultural activities towards sustainability. We implemented a spatial prediction model of agricultural land use changes ...