Download or read book Agricultural Policies and Soil Degradation in Western Canada an Agro economic Assessment report 3 the Integration of the Environmental and Economic Components written by Aziz Bouzaher and published by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Policy Branch. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated agro-ecological economic modeling system is being constructed around the Canadian Regional Agriculture Model (CRAM) for Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. As an initial application, and to test its performance, the system was used to evaluate the resource neutrality of the Gross Revenue Insurance Program (GRIP) in the Prairie Provinces. The report discusses the interactions between the major system components of agricultural decision (RS-CRAM) and environmental decision; imposes the policy scenario being simulated on RS-CRAM, where management decisions are simulated based on expected producer response to risk and options available in the input substitution component; interfaces management parameters such as tillage level, crop, and crop sequence from RS-CRAM with the environmental metamodels; and then performs an analysis to evaluate the overall economic and environmental impacts of the simulated policy scenario.
Download or read book Agricultural Policies and Soil Degradation in Western Canada written by Aziz Bouzaher and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's 1991 Farm Income Protection Act introduced two major farm income stabilization programs, the Gross Revenue Insurance Plan (GRIP) and the Net Income Stabilization Account. To analyze the impact of GRIP and NISA on the economy and environment of western Canada, Agriculture Canada proposes an integrated systems approach including the Canadian Regional Agricultural Model (CRAM) and components for input substitution, policy, ecology, and trade-off analysis. This report outlines the integrated systems approach and the major rules and provisions of GRIP and NISA that will be explicitly modelled. It then describes the methodology for modifying CRAM and the environmental component that will be linked to CRAM to evaluate soil erosion impacts of the programs. Finally, the report describes economic and environmental model linkages and concludes with proposed policy runs.
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