This paper identifies major future trends and driving factors and perspectives and challenges resulting from them for European agriculture and food sectors until the year 2020. The focus of the paper is an analysis of key driving forces and the provision of a well developed reference scenario...

The complexity of agri-environmental economic issues is such thata model that is fully consistent at all levels of aggregation and alltype of questions to be addressed is not available at the AgriculturalEconomics Research Institute in the Hague LEI. Such a model isprobably also not feasible. At...

This paper presents a modeling system that can be used to analyze the trade off between economy and environment. It takes into account manure policy, farm structure and manure surpluses at farm level as well as the economic effects of manure surpluses at market level. The modeling system...