Agricultural Economists and Long-Run Challenges Facing Canadian Agriculture

This paper addresses a number of long-run development issues facing Canadian agriculture and identifies some important roles for agricultural economists in the future. Issues addressed in the area of farm structure and operation include farm entry, financing, quota allocation and transfer, subsidies and taxation, and asset management. Agricultural growth and development issues addressed include forecasting, agricultural secondary effects, multifactor productivity, and measurements of the benefits from agricultural research. Cette etude aborde un certain nombre de debouches a long terme se presentant a I'agriculture Canadienne, el idenlifie quelques-uns des roles importants qu'auront a jouer les economistes en agriculture, dans lefutur. Ces debouches, addresses a la zone a structure el operation fermieres, comprennent la prise de possession d'une ferme, son financement, son quota! d'allocation, sa transmission, les subsides el les impbls, el son act if gestionnaire. La croissance de I'agriculture el les solutions de developpemenl abordees, tiennent compte des previsions, des effets secondaires de I'agriculture, de la productivityea facieurs multiples, el des mesures des benefices provenant de la recherche dans le domaine de I'agriculture.