Ardeni, Pier Giorgio; Freebairn, John - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part A, …, (pp. 1455-1485). 2002
sector and justifies why we can conceive of a macroeconomics of agriculture . The primary sector is characterized by product … — from agriculture to the rest of the economy — forward linkages — from the macroeconomy and the international economy to … agriculture — and second-round feed-back interdependent linkages. Models and studies attempting to quantify the linkages are then …