This collaborative project aims to measure the impact on Ireland’s agri-food industry of changes in policies and markets that may occur over the next 10 years.

Specific Objectives

• To build econometric models of the agri-food sector. These are then used in analysing and projecting the impacts of policy and other changes on: farm production, prices, incomes, product consumption and government expenditure, and on the market prospects for leading farm products and agricultural inputs.

• To work with those involved in government, farming and allied industries in developing scenarios of the future and estimating how they will affect the sector.

The ultimate beneficiaries of the model building and projection process will be farmers, food businesses and rural communities. The forward planning capabilities of policy makers in both the private and public sectors will be strengthened by having ready access to more systematic information on the impacts of policy and other changes. In particular the project is committed to dialogue through meetings and publications.