This report describes the algorithm to disaggregate regional crop area statistics in Europe, at all NUTS and GAUL administrative levels and onto a regular grid of 25 km. This algorithm is necessary to aggregate crop indicators in the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS) from the original...

The disruption of supply chain due to Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine, render the prediction of agricultural output a determinant factor of economic life. We consider the predictability of agricultural output based on a set of explanatory variables, that include agricultural input, prices and...

The objective of this paper is to suggest a new predictive system for international trade, based on an unobserved component model. We employ the predictive system developed by Pastor and Stambaugh (2009), which is unlike other conventional predictive regression models. This paper derives an...