The ERS Country-Commodity Linked System: Documenting Its International Country and Regional Agricultural Baseline Models

by Kim Hjort, David Boussios, Ralph Seeley, and James Hansen

This report describes the underlying structure of the economic models that make up ERS's Country-Commodity Linked System. The models produce medium- to long-range projections of the supply and use of major agricultural commodities by 44 importing and exporting countries and regions. The data are used to develop USDA's annual 10-year agricultural projections.

Keywords: agriculture, agriculture policy, agricultural sector model, documentation, agricultural trade, supply, demand, price, projections, USDA agricultural baseline, partial equilibrium model

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