Modeling policy and agricultural decisions in Afghanistan

Modeling Policy and Agricultural Decisions in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is responsible for the majority of the world’s supply of poppy crops, which are often used to produce illegal narcotics like heroin. This paper presents an agent-based model that simulates policy scenarios to characterize how the production of poppy can be dampened and replaced with licit crops over time. The model is initialized with spatial data, including transportation network a...

Ecologic-Economic Modeling of Agricultural Land Use for Policy Decisions: An Integrated Model Implemented for North East Region of Germany

This article presents an integrated ecologic and economic model to study landscape and land use change, using the Spatial Analysis Modelling Tool (SAMT). The study involves integrating these models to analyse landscape and land use changes in Quillow region of North East Germany. Different price and premium scenarios were implemented to indicate the likely effect of policy change. Results of th...

Policy Instruments in the Common Agricultural Policy

Policy changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can be explained in terms of the exhaustion and long-term contradictions of policy instruments. Changes in policy instruments have reoriented the policy without any change in formal Treaty goals. The social and economic efficacy of instruments in terms of evidence-based policy analysis was a key factor in whether they were delegitimized. Th...

Overseas Development Institute Humanitarian Policy Group AGRICULTURAL REHABILITATION IN AFGHANISTAN: LINKING RELIEF, DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT TO RURAL LIVELIHOODS

Reconciling Actors’ Preferences in Agricultural Policy – Towards a New Management of Public Decisions

A handbook, blended with practical cases and theory The present book is designed, first, as a handbook, conceived for analysts and scientists already involved or willing to involve themselves in the remarkable and difficult task of improving public decision processes. Step by step, it presents a comprehensive approach, starting from the definition of the objective of a public decision (like a p...