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Applications of Systems Approaches at the Farm and Regional Levels - Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, held at IRRI, Los Banos, Philippines, 6-8 December 1995 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
P. S Teng, M.J. Kropff, H.F.M. ten Berge, J.B. Dent, F.P. Lansigan, …
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Systems approaches for agricultural development are needed to
determine rational strategies for the role of agriculture in
national development. Mathematical models and computer simulation
provide objective tools for applying science to determine and
evaluate options for resource management at field, farm and
regional scales. However, these tools would not be fully utilizable
without incorporating social and economic dimensions into their
application. The second international symposium, Systems Approaches
for Agricultural Development, held in Los Banos, 6-8 December 1995,
fostered this link between the bio-physical sciences and the social
sciences in the choice of keynote papers and oral presentations, a
selection of which is included in this book. The book's contents
further reflect how systems approaches have definitely moved beyond
the research mode into the application mode. The large number and
high quality of interdisciplinary research projects reported from
different parts of the globe, to determine land use options that
will meet multiple goals and yet sustain natural resource bases, is
a key indicator of this coming of age'. At the farm level, where
trade-off decisions between processes and products (commodities)
feature strongly, much progress is also evident in the development
of systems-based tools for decision making. This book will be of
particular interest to all agricultural scientists and planners, as
well as students interested in multidisciplinary and holistic
approaches for agricultural development."
A fast-growing interest in the concepts and application of systems
research has spawned a wide and general literature over the past
decade. Most disciplinary areas have been touched, but commerce,
engineering and military studies have, perhaps, been best served
with outstanding texts. No provision has so far been made for a
general book at introductory level of direct relevance to
agricultural science, technology and management. General reviews
are, of course, valuable to the agricultural-systems researcher but
agricultural systems, with important biological components
interacting with equally vital social and economic elements, embody
particular characteristics which influence the approach to their
study. This book is written in the belief that the concepts as well
as the technology of the systems approach have a basic role in the
rational advancement of the agricultural discipline and in the
improvement of efficiency in agricultural research and practice. A
basic and introductory text is an essential pre requisite to this
role being realised. A reiteration of basic concepts is expressed
in the introductory chapter while in the final chapter particular
attention is given to the general problems of integrating systems
concepts in research, extension and practice. The dialogue of these
chapters is necessarily brief and in some respects speculative but
it is supported by appropriate bibliography. The main body of the
text is concerned with the methodology of systems research; the
conception, construction, implementation, validation and
exploitation of computer-based simulation models of agricultural
systems."
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Applications of Systems Approaches at the Farm and Regional Levels - Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, held at IRRI, Los Banos, Philippines, 6-8 December 1995 (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
P. S Teng, M.J. Kropff, H.F.M. ten Berge, J.B. Dent, F.P. Lansigan, …
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Systems approaches for agricultural development are needed to
determine rational strategies for the role of agriculture in
national development. Mathematical models and computer simulation
provide objective tools for applying science to determine and
evaluate options for resource management at field, farm and
regional scales. However, these tools would not be fully utilizable
without incorporating social and economic dimensions into their
application. The second international symposium, Systems Approaches
for Agricultural Development, held in Los BaAos, 6-8 December 1995,
fostered this link between the bio-physical sciences and the social
sciences in the choice of keynote papers and oral presentations, a
selection of which is included in this book. The book's contents
further reflect how systems approaches have definitely moved beyond
the research mode into the application mode. The large number and
high quality of interdisciplinary research projects reported from
different parts of the globe, to determine land use options that
will meet multiple goals and yet sustain natural resource bases, is
a key indicator of this coming of age'. At the farm level, where
trade-off decisions between processes and products (commodities)
feature strongly, much progress is also evident in the development
of systems-based tools for decision making. This book will be of
particular interest to all agricultural scientists and planners, as
well as students interested in multidisciplinary and holistic
approaches for agricultural development.
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