The premises behind Task 2 of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA's) Food and Agriculture Program are that the basic agricultural resources will, over a long run time horizon, become more scarce and expensive, that changes in the availability and the relative prices...

A multiperiod regional-national recursive system is formulated to model the interrelationships between agricultural production, resource use, and the environment, in a region nested within a national market. The system consists of three main components: a linear programming model of a region; an...

In response to the Project Advisory Committee's inquiries, this note examines the consistency of using outputs from the National Inter-regional Agricultural Projection model (NIRAP) as inputs to the CARD/RCA linear programming model. To examine this, the paper first addresses the output that the...