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Part of the book series: System Approaches for Sustainable Agricultural Development (SAAD, volume 6)
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The second international symposium, Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development (SAAD), held in Los Baños, 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applications of Systems Approaches at the Field Level
Book Subtitle: Volume 2: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, held at IRRI, Los Baños, Philippines, 6–8 December 1995
Editors: M. J. Kropff, P. S. Teng, P. K. Aggarwal, J. Bouma, B. A. M. Bouman, J. W. Jones, H. H. Laar
Series Title: System Approaches for Sustainable Agricultural Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0754-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4286-1Published: 31 January 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4763-2Published: 08 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0754-1Published: 11 November 2013
Series ISSN: 0928-9526
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 468
Topics: Agriculture, Ecology, Economic Growth