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In the coming decades the world will need to more than double its
food and feed production, almost all of the increase being needed
in developing countries. This has socioeconomic and biophysical
implications. Traditional component and commodity research
addresses overly narrow issues at too small a scale. Rural
development needs an eco-regional approach that integrates
biophysical and socioeconomic work on cropping systems, livestock,
the environment, and natural resources. This book contains the
papers, response papers and discussion report of a five-day seminar
on eco-regional approaches. It assesses the state of the art of
systems approaches applied to eco-regional problems, presenting and
discussing a number of case studies. Future research needs are
discussed, as well as ways to improve collaboration between
research institutes. The seminar on which the book is based was
organised on behalf of the Directorate General for International
Cooperation of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the
Research Institute for Agrobiology and Soil Fertility (AB-DLO), the
Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU), and the International
Potato Centre (CIP). It was held at the International Service for
National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), and was attended by
participants from all CGIAR centres, among others.
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Applications of Systems Approaches at the Field Level - Volume 2: 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 hardcover 1st ed. 1997)
M.J. Kropff, P. S Teng, P.K. Aggarwal, Johan Bouma, B.A.M. Bouman, …
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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 (SAAD), held in Los Banos, 6-8
December 1995, fostered this link between the biophysical sciences
and the social sciences in the selection of keynote papers and oral
presentations, a selection of which are included in these books.
The 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. At the field level optimization of resource use and
minimizing environmental effects has become of major concern for
which systems approaches are indispensable. The books, of which
Volume I deals with regional and farm studies level and Volume II
with field level studies, will be of particular interest to all
agricultural scientists and planners, as well as students
interested in multidisciplinary and holistic approaches to
agricultural development."
Integrated studies on the assessment and improvement of soil and
water quality have to deal almost inevitably with issues of scale,
since the spatial support of measurements, the model calculations
and the presentation of results usually vary. This book contains
the selected and edited proceedings of a workshop devoted to issues
of scale entitled: Soil and Water Quality at Different Scales',
which was held in 1996 in Wageningen. It is intended for
environmental researchers, scientists and MSc and PhD students.
Part 1 covers current issues and methodologies with scale related
soil and water quality research. Part 2 covers agroecological and
hydrological case studies in which scale transforms form an
important part of the research chain. Part 3 consists of papers
focusing on methodologies and up and downscaling. Part 4 contains
review papers based on modellers' and statisticians' considerations
as well as the papers and posters presented during the workshop.
Part 5 consists of short research notes.
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Applications of Systems Approaches at the Field Level - Volume 2: 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.)
M.J. Kropff, P. S Teng, P.K. Aggarwal, Johan Bouma, B.A.M. Bouman, …
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Discovery Miles 60 600
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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 (SAAD), held in Los Banos, 6-8
December 1995, fostered this link between the biophysical sciences
and the social sciences in the selection of keynote papers and oral
presentations, a selection of which are included in these books.
The 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. At the field level optimization of resource use and
minimizing environmental effects has become of major concern for
which systems approaches are indispensable. The books, of which
Volume I deals with regional and farm studies level and Volume II
with field level studies, will be of particular interest to all
agricultural scientists and planners, as well as students
interested in multidisciplinary and holistic approaches to
agricultural development."
In the coming decades the world will need to more than double its
food and feed production, almost all of the increase being needed
in developing countries. This has socioeconomic and biophysical
implications. Traditional component and commodity research
addresses overly narrow issues at too small a scale. Rural
development needs an eco-regional approach that integrates
biophysical and socioeconomic work on cropping systems, livestock,
the environment, and natural resources. This book contains the
papers, response papers and discussion report of a five-day seminar
on eco-regional approaches. It assesses the state of the art of
systems approaches applied to eco-regional problems, presenting and
discussing a number of case studies. Future research needs are
discussed, as well as ways to improve collaboration between
research institutes. The seminar on which the book is based was
organised on behalf of the Directorate General for International
Cooperation of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the
Research Institute for Agrobiology and Soil Fertility (AB-DLO), the
Wageningen Agricultural University (WAU), and the International
Potato Centre (CIP). It was held at the International Service for
National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), and was attended by
participants from all CGIAR centres, among others.
Global Soil Security: Towards More Science-Society Interfaces
contains contributions presented at the 2nd Global Soil Security
conference, held 5-6 December 2016 in Paris. These chapters focus
on how to achieve soil security. This involves scientific,
economic, industrial and political engagement to inform soil-users,
policy makers and citizens with the objective of implementing
appropriate actions. The contributions to this book address the
five dimensions of soil security, namely: capability, condition,
capital, connectivity and codification.
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