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Agriculture is changing rapidly all over the world.
Intensification, diversification, optimizing scarce resources,
integrated pest management, sustainability and climate change are
key issues for agricultural institutes. The best solutions will be
found by integrating disciplines. Organized thinking about future
farming requires forecasting of the implications of alternative
ways to farm and to develop agriculture. Systems thinking and
systems simulation are indispensable tools for such integration and
extrapolation. About 150 scientists and senior research leaders
from all over the world participated in the symposium `Systems
Approaches for Agricultural Development' to discuss these issues.
The symposium reviewed the status of systems research and modeling
in agriculture, with special reference to evaluating their efficacy
and efficiency for achieving research goals, and to their
application in developing countries, promoted international
cooperation in modeling, and increased awareness of systems
research and simulation. This book comprises the papers on the
technical subjects. Well informed authors describe and illustrate
how systems research was used to improve agricultural production
systems of all continents and in diverse environments.
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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