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Dealing with farm heterogeneity on modeling agricultural policy: An Agent Based Modeling Approach

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  • Dimitris Kremmydas

    (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens)

  • Stelios Rozakis

    (Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens)

  • Ioannis N. Athanasiadis

    (Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of Democritus University of Thrace, in Xanthi, Greece)

Abstract

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been gradually transformed from directly supporting prices and production to a decoupled scheme, where farmers receive a payment per hectare regardless of their production decisions. Within this framework and given the multitude of CAP's objectives, ranging from market competiveness to multifunctionality of agriculture, the inclusion of the heterogeneity of farms on modeling CAP will continuously arise in the immediate future as a key research question. In this paper we make a brief discussion of the aspects of farm heterogeneity within the agricultural policy modeling context and we show that Agent Based Modeling approach, coupled with Object Oriented System Analysis, is a very good alternative for considering all aspects of diversity of farms. Finally we present Agroscape, a flexible ABM Agricultural Policy Framework that can easily incorporates both behavioral and capacity heterogeneity presenting a proof-of-concept case study

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  • Dimitris Kremmydas & Stelios Rozakis & Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, 2015. "Dealing with farm heterogeneity on modeling agricultural policy: An Agent Based Modeling Approach," Working Papers 2015-3, Agricultural University of Athens, Department Of Agricultural Economics.
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    Keywords

    Agricultural Policy; Agent Based Modeling; Object Oriented System analysis; Farm heterogeneity;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques

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