A model of Dutch agriculture based on Positive Mathematical Programming with regional and environmental applications

In the Netherlands few sectors are in the news as often as the agricultural sector is, and the news is rarely good. Nearly every day, in newspapers, on television and on the radio we are confronted with BSE, foot and mouth disease, swine and chicken fever, polluted animal feed, manure surpluses, subsidies, European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), farmers' incomes and rural poverty. A lot of people in the Netherlands have written off the Dutch agricultural sector and believe that, as an economic activity, this sector is set to disappear in the near future just like the textile and shipbuildin... Mehr ...