A Framework for Analyzing the Impacts on Agriculture of Government Policies Leading to Industrial Development in Non-Urban Areas

Policy-makers need analytical frameworks which aid in evaluating the distribution of impacts of their decisions. The first section of this paper describes an Environment - Behavior - Impact framework for analyzinq the impacts on agriculture of government policy changes which favor development in non-urban areas. An illustration of the framework using a hypothetical example follows, and the final section is a discussion of the applicability of empirical methods to the framework.