Parsons, David and Nicholson, Charles F.
(2017).
Assessing policy options for agricultural livestock development: A case study of Mexico’s sheep sector.
Cogent food & agriculture. 3
:1313360
, 1-20
[Journal article]
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2017.1313360
Abstract
The demand for sheep meat in the populous central region around Mexico City has grown rapidly in recent years. To assess the impacts of potential “regional development” policy options, a dynamic model of Mexico’s sheep sector with regional and producer group disaggregation is developed that incorporates interactions between herd dynamics, feed dynamics, market inventories of sheep meat and prices for sheep meat and animals. The model is used to assess the outcomes for commercial and tras patio (backyard, small-scale) Mexican sheep producers and sheep meat consumers of three growth assumptions and two intervention alternatives: a variable cost subsidy or the implementation of a stylized health intervention. Model simulations indicate that the dynamics of growth dominate the policy responses; the principal beneficiaries of producer subsidy and animal health interventions are Mexican sheep meat consumers. Commercial sheep producers will experience increases in cumulative net margin, but tras patio producers will be made worse off than they would have been in the absence of interventions. The Mexican sheep system thus exhibits two characteristics of dynamically complex systems: unintended consequences and policy resistance, with broader implications for interventions in agriculture-based livelihood systems.
Authors/Creators: | Parsons, David and Nicholson, Charles F. |
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Title: | Assessing policy options for agricultural livestock development: A case study of Mexico’s sheep sector |
Series/Journal: | Cogent food & agriculture (2331-1932) |
Year of publishing : | 2017 |
Volume: | 3 |
Number: | 1313360 |
Page range: | 1-20 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
ISSN: | 2331-1932 |
Language: | English |
Publication Type: | Journal article |
Refereed: | Yes |
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed |
Version: | Published version |
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 |
Full Text Status: | Public |
Agris subject categories.: | L Animal production > L01 Animal husbandry |
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 402 Animal and Dairy Science > Animal and Dairy Science. |
Keywords: | complex systemsmodellings, livestock simulation, systems modelling, smallholder farmers, system dynamics, Vensim |
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4812 |
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-4812 |
ID Code: | 15287 |
Faculty: | VH - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science |
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden (VH) > Dept. of Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden |
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector |
Deposited On: | 14 Mar 2018 08:38 |
Metadata Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2020 08:37 |
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