A01=Bernard Schmitt
agricultural economics
Author_Bernard Schmitt
Basic Agricultural Resources
calories consumption
Category=JHB
Chemical Score
econometric modeling agriculture
Energy Malnutrition
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expanded food assistance programs
FAO Estimate
FAO Production Yearbook
Fertilizer Variable
Food Aid Programs
food security analysis
Green Revolution technology
Gross Weight
High Quality Protein Source
human capital development
Iron Deficiency Anemia
Ivory Coast
labor productivity
labor productivity studies
Log Linear Form
Meat Production Functions
National Food Balance Sheets
nutrient deficiency impacts
Nutrition Index
Nutritional Distribution
nutritional economics in developing countries
nutritionally deficient countries
Total Harvestable Area
World Food Situation
Product details
- ISBN 9780367284541
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 144 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Production of world food supplies is related to more complicated socioeconomic variables than have previously been analyzed. Besides traditional inputs of land, labor, and fertilizer, the technological capabilities and a variety of nutritional and other human capital components are significant independent variables in explaining agricultural production in the developing world. The integration of economic analyses with the concepts of nutritional science offers an expanded and effective means for analyzing the complex problems of agricultural production in nutritionally deficient countries. Bernard Schmitt traces the circular relationship between nutrition and human capital, labor productivity, food production, and per capita consumption of calories and protein. He defines the basic nutritional terms that are most useful to economists in analyzing agricultural and foodrelated questions and provides examples that stress the importance of concentrating on nutritional quality as well as gross quantity. Transformations are used to convert quantities into basic nutritional components, allowing more meaningful quantitative analyses in an econometric framework. Dr. Schmitt presents a flexible methodology for forecasting commodity production, using it to make projections for the developing countries for each major commodity group and to test various policy alternatives such as extensive trade, expanded food assistance programs, substantial resource or input expansion, further expansion of Green Revolution technology, and development of alternatives to agriculture. Although he is certain that gains can be accomplished through population control and agricultural advances, supplemented by alternative nutritional sources, he concludes that conditions in nutritionally deficient countries are unlikely to improve, on average, through the mid-1980s.
Bernard A. Schmitt is an economist with the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University and served as a research economist with the Florida State Department of Commerce.
