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Systems approaches for agricultural development

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2–6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Frits Penning Vries

    1. DLO Centre for Agrobiological Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  2. Paul Teng

    1. International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines

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  3. Klaas Metselaar

    1. DLO Centre for Agrobiological Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (32 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Crop Production: genotypic constraints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Designing improved plant types: a breeder’s viewpoint

      • L. A. Hunt
      Pages 3-17

    3. Improvement of rice plant type concepts: systems research enables interaction of physiology and breeding

      • M. Dingkuhn, F. W. T. Penning De Vries, K. M. Miezan
      Pages 19-35

    4. Designing improved plant types for the semiarid tropics: agronomists’ viewpoints

      • R. C. Muchow, P. S. Carberry
      Pages 37-61

    5. Simulation in pre-testing of rice genotypes in Tamil Nadu

      • S. Palanisamy, F. W. T. Penning de Vries, S. Mohandass, T. M. Thiyagarajan, A. Abdul Kareem
      Pages 63-75

    6. Genetic specific data for crop modeling

      • J. T. Ritchie
      Pages 77-93

  3. Crop Production: weather constraints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Agro-ecological zoning using crop growth simulation models: characterization of wheat environments of India

      • P. K. Aggarwal
      Pages 97-109

    3. An agroclimatic approach to agricultural development in India

      • R. K. Singh, D. N. Singh
      Pages 111-125

    4. Optimising harvest operations against weather risk

      • G. Y. Abawi
      Pages 127-143

    5. The impacts of climate change on rice yield: evaluation of the efficacy of different modeling approaches

      • D. Bachelet, J. van Sickle, C. A. Gay
      Pages 145-174

    6. Rice production and climate change

      • F. W. T. Penning de Vries
      Pages 175-189

  4. Crop Production: soil onstraints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. A systems approach to the assessment and improvement of water use efficiency in the North China plain

      • Tian-Duo Wang
      Pages 193-205

    3. Soil data for crop-soil models

      • J. Bouma, M. C. S. Wopereis, J. H. M. Wösten, A. Stein
      Pages 207-220

    4. Root ventilation, rhizosphere modification, and nutrient uptake by rice

      • G. J. D. Kirk
      Pages 221-232

    5. Adjustment of nitrogen inputs in response to a seasonal forecast in a region of high climatic risk

      • B. A. Keating, R. L. McCown, B. M. Wafula
      Pages 233-252

    6. Maize modeling in Malawi: a tool for soil fertility research and development

      • Upendra Singh, Philip K. Thornton, Alex R. Saka, J. Barry Dent
      Pages 253-273

  5. Crop Production: biological constraints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-275
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • DLO Centre for Agrobiological Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Frits Penning Vries, Klaas Metselaar

  • International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines

    Paul Teng

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Systems approaches for agricultural development

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2–6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Editors: Frits Penning Vries, Paul Teng, Klaas Metselaar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2842-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1881-1Published: 12 December 1992

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2842-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 542

  • Topics: Plant Sciences

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