Dynamic Linear Models for the Study of Agricultural Systems

This volume presents five studies for modeling agro-industrial development at a regional and enterprise level with the basic methodological framework of dynamic linear programming. The first two papers focus on methodological problems. Section 1 describes a dynamic linear modeling framework for studying agro-industrial development. The introduction of uncertainties in linear dynamic agricultural models is discussed in Section 2. Concrete modeling projects using dynamic linear programming are reported in the next three papers. A farm level application of dynamic Linear models is presented in Section 3. Section 4 gives an account of the Silistra case study where the dynamic linear model elaborated at IIASA was used as the basic methodology for planning the region's agro-industrial development. Finally, Section 5 describes a dynamic linear water demand model