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PROJECTION MODELS FOR U.K. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE *
Author(s) -
McFarquhar A. M. M.,
Evans M. C.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1971.tb01418.x
Subject(s) - agriculture , consumption (sociology) , economics , agricultural economics , production (economics) , projection (relational algebra) , population , government (linguistics) , food systems , food supply , natural resource economics , food security , microeconomics , geography , mathematics , social science , linguistics , philosophy , demography , archaeology , algorithm , sociology
Successful policy planning depends to a large extent on being able to predict the consequences of alternative measures. In the case of agriculture, it is important to know how the future pattern of supply and demand in this sector will be affected by government action on specific issues such as farm price support, and by expected trends in macro‐economic variables such as national incomes and population. This paper illustrates the application of a model of U.K. agriculture to the projection of changes in the production and consumption of food and agriculture products between now and 1975. The demand projections show the effect of important levies, and of joining the E.E.C, on future expenditure on food, while the supply projections show how the output of a number of agricultural commodities will be affected by adjusting farm prices towards E.E.C. levels.