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Systems approaches for agricultural development - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2-6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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Systems approaches for agricultural development - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2-6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
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The symposium In the next decades, agriculture will have to cope
with an ever-increasing demand for food and raw basic materials on
the one hand, and with the necessity to use resources without
further degrading or exhausting the environment on the other hand,
and all this within a dynamic framework of social and economic
conditions. Intensification, sustainability, optimizing scarce
resources, and climate change are among the key issues. Organized
thinking about future farming requires forecasting of consequences
of alternative ways to farm and to develop agriculture. The
complexity of the problems calls for a systematic approach in which
many disciplines are integrated. Systems thinking and systems
simulation are therefore indispensable tools for such endeavours.
About 150 scientists and senior research leaders participated in
the symposium 'Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development'
(SAAD) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok,
Thailand, in December 1991. The symposium had the following
objectives: - to review the status of systems research and modeling
in agriculture, with special reference to evaluating their efficacy
and efficiency in achieving research goals, and to their
application in developing countries; - to promote international
cooperation in modeling, and increase awareness of systems research
and simulation. The symposium consisted of plenary sessions with
reviews of major areas in systems approaches in agriculture, plus
presentations in two concurrent sessions on technical topics of
systems research. Subjects of studies were from tropical and
temperate countries.
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