@article{Gaspar:241982,
      recid = {241982},
      author = {Gaspar, João and Pina, Gilson and Simões, Marta},
      title = {Agriculture in Portugal: linkages with industry and  services},
      journal = {Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Revue  d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement (RAEStud)},
      address = {2014},
      number = {906-2016-71335},
      series = {95-4},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {We investigate the links between agriculture and  non-agricultural sectors in Portugal by assessing the  existence of long-run relationships and causality among the  three main sectors of activity in terms of value added and  labour productivity using a VAR model for the period  1970-2006. Agricultural value added is found to be both  weakly and strongly exogenous so it exerted no influence in  the other sectors expansion nor was it influenced by their  growth. The results with labour productivity show that  productivity gains in services and industry feedback into  productivity growth in agriculture, although the link is  weaker in the industry case. Portuguese decision makers  believe that restoring agricultural production plays an  important role in overcoming the country’s current  difficulties. However, they need to pay more attention to  the potential synergies between agricultural and  non-agricultural sectors, and provide agriculture with the  necessary technological and organizational capabilities to  benefit from industry and services expansion. Our results  indicate that this does not seem to have happened in the  past, a situation that should be improved in order to  restore agricultural production and promote overall  growth.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/241982},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.241982},
}