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Advances in farming systems analysis and intervention (Record no. 30191)

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control field MX-TxCIM
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International Standard Serial Number 0308-521X
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title En
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Personal name Keating, B.A.
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Title Advances in farming systems analysis and intervention
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
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General note Peer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=0308-521X
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Summary, etc. In this paper, we recognize two key components of farming systems, namely the bio-physical 'Production System' of crops, pastures, animals, soil and climate, together with certain physical inputs and outputs, and the ?Management System?, made up of people, values, goals, knowledge, resources, monitoring opportunities, and decision making. Utilising upon these constructs, we review six types of farming systems analysis and intervention that have evolved over the last 40 years, namely: (1) economic decision analysis based on production functions, (2) dynamic simulation of production processes, (3) economic decision analysis linked to biophysical simulation, (4) decision support systems, (5) expert systems, and (6) simulation-aided discussions about management in an action research paradigm. Biophysical simulation modelling features prominently in this list of approaches and considerable progress has been made in both the scope and predictive power of the modelling tools. We illustrate some more recent advances in increasing model comprehensiveness in simulating farm production systems via reference to our own group's work with the Agricultural Production Systems Simulator (APSIM). Two case studies are discussed, one with broad-scale commercial agriculture in north-eastern Australia and the other with resource poor smallholder farmers in Africa. We conclude by considering future directions for systems analysis efforts directed at farming systems. We see the major challenges and opportunities lying at the interface of ?hard?, scientific approaches to the analysis of biophysical systems and 'soft', approaches to intervention in social management systems.
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Language note English
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Collection Reprints Collection
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element APSIM
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Decision support
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element DSS
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element FARMSCAPE
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Modelling
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Farming systems
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
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Personal name McCown, R.L.,
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Title Agricultural Systems
Related parts v. 70, no. 2-3, p. 555-579
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Koha item type Article
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