Japanese Agricultural and Rural Land Policies after the GATT Conclusion.

Should agricultural policies encourage land sparing or wildlife-friendly farming?

Environmental Policies and Agricultural Land Values: Evidence from the Dutch Nutrient Quota System*

Thurman for their comments and suggestions. The information provided by Peter Munters, a senior staff officer with the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, in The Hague is also acknowledged. ABSTRACT The paper analyzes the impact of the phosphate based animal production rights on agricultural land values in the Netherlands. We claim that the existence of mandatory productio...

Shifting Patterns of Global Agricultural Productivity: Synthesis and Conclusion

Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Julian Alston is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, and associate director, Science and Technology, at the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. Bruce Babcock is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Agricultu...

Modeling Land Use with Multi-Agent Systems Perspectives for the Analysis of Agricultural Policies

This paper addresses the adequacy and perspectives of multi-agent system (MAS) models in the context of policy support for agricultural policy makers. The paper starts illustrating what MAS are and how they may be used. The general presentation is followed by the description of an exemplary spatial dynamic model of a large number of interacting farms (agents). This model is simulated for differ...

Agricultural landscape structure and biological invasion spread: evaluation of land consolidation policies

Worldwide land consolidation policies have been used during decades to improve efficiency in crop production through the consolidation of fragmented agricultural lands. At a landscape scale the effect of these policies that promote higher clustering of homogeneous crops is questionable, as spatial patterns influence the probability of exotic pests arriving and spreading across the landscape. Th...