FAPRI Modeling System at CARD: A Documentation Summary, The
总结了FAPRI在CARD的大型农业建模系统，说明其如何应对美国农业政策复杂性、非农部门整合及全球经济波动，对政策设计和评估有用。
Large-scale modeling systems have long been viewed as potentially valuable tools for evaluating farm policy. They have received increased attention in recent years, in part because of the added complexity of U.S. farm programs and the fuller integration of the U.S. farm sector with nonfarm sectors and world agricultural commodity markets. Instability in the world economy, changed macroeconomic policies, credit and debt positions, and agricultural trade regulations have significant impacts on U.S. agriculture in the short run and more pronounced long-run implications. It is important that policy models explicitly address these complexities of agriculture if they are to be successfully applied in policy design and evaluation.