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

Dimitrios Kremmydas, Stelios Rozakis and Ioannis Athanasiadis ()
Additional contact information
Ioannis Athanasiadis: Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of Democritus University of Thrace, in Xanthi, Greece

No 2015-3, Working Papers from Agricultural University of Athens, Department Of Agricultural Economics

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

Keywords: Agricultural Policy; Agent Based Modeling; Object Oriented System analysis; Farm heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 Q12 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr and nep-cmp
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://aoatools.aua.gr/RePEc/aua/wpaper/files/2015-3.Kremmydas.Agroscape.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aua:wpaper:2015-3

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Agricultural University of Athens, Department Of Agricultural Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Kremmydas dimitrios ().