the main objective of this study is to examine the impacts of two demand side policies, namely; expanding food industries and externally increase in households’ demand for agricultural goods ,on the growth of products in agricultural subsector. to this end, a social accounting matrix (sam) is constructed based on the latest iranian input- output table released in 2001. then, production multipli...

This paper emphasizes the benefits of an agricultural strategy of development in developing countries. It begins by analyzing the close links between food and employment in the development process. In an underdeveloped country, food production is minimal, but demand is as well because of the small population growth. After development begins, income rises and food demand outstrips production....

This paper proposed a new bilateral model supporting cooperative behavior. It is inspired by cooperation in hunting [34,38] and food sharing of female vampire bats [56,57,58]. In this paper, it is postulated, that low bounding of food capacity (fast saturation) in conjunction with a high demand of food energy (fast starving without food) strongly supports cooperative behavior. These postulation...

Persistent high food prices have drawn renewed attention to the role of China in world food markets. There is concern that China will be unable to keep expanding its food supply to meet growing demand for meat, becoming more dependent on world food markets and driving prices even higher. This article reviews achievements made by China’s agriculture and highlights key challenges faced by that co...

U.S. food use (demand) accounted for 27 percent of total disappearance in 1980/81, and is projected to rise to 36 percent by the year 2000. As food use captures an increasing share of total disappearance, estimating its magnitude becomes even more important in determining total wheat demand for the United States. Because there are many classes of wheat used to produce a wide variety of “wheat-b...