ABSTRACT
The previous chapter has described the POMMARD model which was constructed for the numerical simulation and analysis of multifunctional agriculture and rural development within 11 European case study region (see Chapter 3) over several future years. To be applied to each of these areas (or to others), POMMARD requires region-specific input data for agricultural, demographic and economic variables. As described above, most of these data relate to land production systems and their marketed and nonmarketed commodities, population age/sex/education levels and migration rates, and economy-wide employment patterns and inter-sectoral transactions. Using recent starting values from secondary sources, the future values of the variables, with the exception of land use and production systems, are determined by the model. The future values attributed to land use and production system variables were estimated on the basis of an oracle survey of the impacts of scenarios.
