OreCal conducts research in the following four areas:
Agricultural Economies & the Environment
Rural Families, Households, & Economies
Risk Management for Specialty Crops
Consumers, Food, and Nutrition
OreCal can help policy makers and resource managers answer questions such as these:
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How do changes in commodity, conservation, and safety net programs affect farm income, local economies, and water quality?
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How should crop or revenue risk management programs for specialty crops be redesigned to provide insurance benefits with minimal distortions?
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How would reduced commodity support affect food prices and consumer access to nutritious food?
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How do water quality regulations influence the economic viability of farming and the health of wildlife?
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What policies will help farmers prosper in a changing environment?
Some of the models that will be employed include:
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Regional Spatially-Explicit Land Use Modeling
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Tradeoff Analysis Model for Multi-Dimensional Impact Assessment
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Models to Assess Agriculture-Wide and Rural Economic Interactions of Commodity Policy Change
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Household-level and Community-level Policy Impact Models
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Regional Computable General Equilibrium Models
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Multi-regional Urban-core/Rural-periphery Input-output Models
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Models of Dairy Policy in a Global Context
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Risk Management Models
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Crop Insurance and the PRISM Climate Mapping System
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Consumer, Food and Nutrition Frameworks