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Gordon Y. Tsuji
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University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, USA
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Gerrit Hoogenboom
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Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, The University of Georgia, USA
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Philip K. Thornton
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International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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- J. T. Ritchie, U. Singh, D. C. Godwin, W. T. Bowen
Pages 79-98
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- K. J. Boote, J. W. Jones, G. Hoogenboom, N. B. Pickering
Pages 99-128
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- U. Singh, R. B. Matthews, T. S. Griffin, J. T. Ritchie, L. A. Hunt, R. Goenaga
Pages 129-156
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- J. W. Jones, G. Y. Tsuji, G. Hoogenboom, L. A. Hunt, P. K. Thornton, P. W. Wilkens et al.
Pages 157-177
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- W. T. Bowen, W. E. Baethgen
Pages 189-204
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- J. F. Macrobert, M. J. Savage
Pages 205-220
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- P. S. Teng, W. D. Batchelor, H. O. Pinnschmidt, G. G. Wilkerson
Pages 221-266
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- C. Rosenzweig, A. Iglesias
Pages 267-292
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- F. H. Beinroth, J. W. Jones, E. B. Knapp, P. Papajorgji, J. Luyten
Pages 293-311
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- W. T. Bowen, P. K. Thornton, G. Hoogenboom
Pages 313-327
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- P. K. Thornton, P. W. Wilkens
Pages 329-345
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- G. Edwards-Jones, J. B. Dent, O. Morgan, M. J. McGregor
Pages 347-365
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About this book
The first premise of this book is that farmers need access to options for improving their situation. In agricultural terms, these options might be manage ment alternatives or different crops to grow, that can stabilize or increase household income, that reduce soil degradation and dependence on off-farm inputs, or that exploit local market opportunities. Farmers need a facilitating environment, in which affordable credit is available if needed, in which policies are conducive to judicious management of natural resources, and in which costs and prices of production are stable. Another key ingredient of this facilitating environment is information: an understanding of which options are viable, how these operate at the farm level, and what their impact may be on the things that farmers perceive as being important. The second premise is that systems analysis and simulation have an impor tant role to play in fostering this understanding of options, traditional field experimentation being time-consuming and costly. This book summarizes the activities of the International Benchmark Sites Network for Agrotechnology Transfer (IBSNAT) project, an international initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). IBSNAT was an attempt to demonstrate the effectiveness of understanding options through systems analysis and simulation for the ultimate benefit of farm households in the tropics and subtropics. The idea for the book was first suggested at one of the last IBSNAT group meetings held at the University of Hawaii in 1993.
Reviews
`... it is a `must' book for current or potential users of the DSSAT system and it also could be recommended for research scientists interested in developing and applying crop models and decision support systems in agriculture. This is a good book and it would be a valuable contribution to relevant libraries.'
Plant Growth Regulation, 26 (1998)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, USA
Gordon Y. Tsuji
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Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, The University of Georgia, USA
Gerrit Hoogenboom
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International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
Philip K. Thornton
