Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

Current editor(s): J.W. Hansen, P.K. Thornton and P.B.M. Berentsen

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Volume 75, issue 2-3, 2003

Preface pp. 119-121

D. Buschena and C. Robert Taylor

Risk research in agricultural economics: opportunities and challenges for the next twenty-five years pp. 123-159

Richard Just

Risk in rural development: challenges for managers and policy makers pp. 161-197

Jock Anderson

Principles of risk management service relations in agriculture pp. 199-213

David Just, Steven Wolf and David Zilberman

The economics of risk, uncertainty and learning in the adoption of new agricultural technologies: where are we on the learning curve? pp. 215-234

Michele Marra, David Pannell and Amir Abadi Ghadim

Evaluating the magnitudes of financial transactions costs on risk behavior pp. 235-249

Joseph A. Atwood and David E. Buschena

The role of risk versus the role of uncertainty in economic systems pp. 251-264

C. Robert Taylor

Optimal risk in agricultural contracts pp. 265-276

Ethan Ligon

Value of imperfect input information in agricultural production pp. 277-294

Paul Mitchell

Legal risk in agriculture: right-to-farm laws and institutional change pp. 295-303

Joshua Duke and Scott A. Malcolm

Alternative risk financing instruments for swine epidemics pp. 305-322

Miranda P. M. Meuwissen, Marcel A. P. M. Van Asseldonk and Ruud B. M. Huirne

Evaluation of the interaction of risk management tools for cotton and soybeans pp. 323-340

Keith Coble, Manuel Zuniga and Richard Heifner

Volume 75, issue 1, 2003

A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize-cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part I--Integrating biological and socio-economic models into a holistic system pp. 1-21

Octavio A. Castelan-Ortega, Roy H. Fawcett, Carlos Arriaga-Jordan and Mario Herrero

A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize-cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part II--Emulating the farming system pp. 23-46

Octavio A. Castelan-Ortega, Roy H. Fawcett, Carlos Arriaga-Jordan and Mario Herrero

Linking physiological and architectural models of cotton pp. 47-77

J. S. Hanan and A. B. Hearn

Logit models for identifying the factors that influence the uptake of new `no-tillage' technologies by farmers in the rice-wheat and the cotton-wheat farming systems of Pakistan's Punjab pp. 79-95

A. D. Sheikh, T. Rehman and C. M. Yates

Participatory Farm Management methods for assessing the suitability of potential innovations. A case study on green manuring options for tomato producers in Ghana pp. 97-117

Peter Dorward, Mark Galpin and Derek Shepherd

Volume 74, issue 3, 2002

Applying seasonal climate prediction to agricultural production pp. 305-307

J. W. Hansen

Realizing the potential benefits of climate prediction to agriculture: issues, approaches, challenges pp. 309-330

James W. Hansen

Opportunities and constraints for farmers of west Africa to use seasonal precipitation forecasts with Burkina Faso as a case study pp. 331-349

K. T. Ingram, M. C. Roncoli and P. H. Kirshen

Implications of farm-level response to seasonal climate forecasts for aggregate grain production in Zimbabwe pp. 351-369

J. G. Phillips, D. Deane, L. Unganai and A. Chimeli

Use of ENSO-related climate information in agricultural decision making in Argentina: a pilot experience pp. 371-392

Guillermo Podesta, David Letson, Carlos Messina, Fred Royce, R. Andres Ferreyra, James Jones, Jim Hansen, Ignacio Llovet, Martin Grondona and James J. O'Brien

Infusing the use of seasonal climate forecasting into crop management practice in North East Australia using discussion support software pp. 393-414

R. A. Nelson, D. P. Holzworth, G. L. Hammer and P. T. Hayman

Responding to stakeholder's demands for climate information: from research to applications in Florida pp. 415-430

S. S. Jagtap, J. W. Jones, P. Hildebrand, David Letson, J. J. O'Brien, G. Podesta, D. Zierden and F. Zazueta

Use of climate information for farm-level decision making: rainfed groundnut in southern India pp. 431-457

Sulochana Gadgil, P. R. Seshagiri Rao and K. Narahari Rao

Enhanced risk management and decision-making capability across the sugarcane industry value chain based on seasonal climate forecasts pp. 459-477

Y. L. Everingham, R. C. Muchow, R. C. Stone, N. G. Inman-Bamber, A. Singels and C. N. Bezuidenhout

Volume 74, issue 2, 2002

Sheep animal welfare in a low rainfall Mediterranean environment: a profitable investment? pp. 221-240

R. Kingwell

An economic approach for a better understanding of conflicts between farmers and nature conservationists--an application of the decision support system MODAM to the Lower Odra Valley National Park pp. 241-255

H. Kachele and Stephan Dabbert

Assessing the consequences of technological change on farm enterprises in southeastern Nigeria by use of factor analysis pp. 257-270

J. O. Alimba and C. J. C. Akubuilo

Investigating strategies for minimising damage caused by the sugarcane pest Eldana saccharina pp. 271-286

Petrovious M. Horton, John W. Hearne, Joseph Apaloo, Desmond E. Conlong, Michael J. Way and Pieter Uys

Validation of SPUR2.4 rangeland simulation model using a cow-calf field experiment pp. 287-302

W. R. Teague and J. K. Foy

Animal Welfare: Colin Spedding (Ed.). Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, 2000, 188 pp. Price: [pound sign]12.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 85383 672 9 pp. 303-304

David Kennedy

Volume 74, issue 1, 2002

Probing the enigma of the decision support system for farmers: Learning from experience and from theory pp. 1-10

R. L. McCown, Z. Hochman and P. S. Carberry

Locating agricultural decision support systems in the troubled past and socio-technical complexity of `models for management' pp. 11-25

R. L. McCown

SIRATAC and CottonLOGIC: persevering with DSSs in the Australian cotton industry pp. 27-56

A. B. Hearn and M. P. Bange

An ecology of a DSS: reflections on managing wheat crops in the northeastern Australian grains region with WHEATMAN pp. 57-77

P. T. Hayman and W. J. Easdown

PCYield: model-based decision support for soybean production pp. 79-98

S. M. Welch, J. W. Jones, M. W. Brennan, G. Reeder and B. M. Jacobson

Insights in development and deployment of the GLA and NUTBAL decision support systems for grazinglands pp. 99-113

Jerry W. Stuth, Wayne T. Hamilton and Richard Conner

Evolution of the GRAZPLAN decision support tools and adoption by the grazing industry in temperate Australia pp. 115-139

J. R. Donnelly, M. Freer, L. Salmon, A. D. Moore, R. J. Simpson, H. Dove and T. P. Bolger

The FARMSCAPE approach to decision support: farmers', advisers', researchers' monitoring, simulation, communication and performance evaluation pp. 141-177

P. S. Carberry, Z. Hochman, R. L. McCown, N. P. Dalgliesh, M. A. Foale, P. L. Poulton, J. N. G. Hargreaves, D. M. G. Hargreaves, S. Cawthray, N. Hillcoat and M. J. Robertson

Changing systems for supporting farmers' decisions: problems, paradigms, and prospects pp. 179-220

R. L. McCown

Volume 73, issue 3, 2002

Decision-making processes for crop management on African farms. Modelling from a case study of cotton crops in northern Cameroon pp. 233-260

I. Dounias, C. Aubry and A. Capillon

Modeling within-season sugarcane growth for optimal harvest system selection pp. 261-278

M. E. Salassi, J. B. Breaux and C. J. Naquin

Livestock manure systems for swine finishing enterprises pp. 279-296

D. P. Stonehouse, G. W. de Vos and Alfons Weersink

Analysis of a complex crop production system in interdependent agro-ecological zones: a methodological approach for potatoes in Argentina pp. 297-311

Daniel O. Caldiz, Anton J. Haverkort and Paul C. Struik

Application of interactive multiple goal programming for red soil watershed development: a case study of Qingshishan watershed pp. 313-324

Lu Jianbo, Wang Zhaoqian and F. W. T. Penning de Vries

Volume 73, issue 2, 2002

Sire selection with multiple objectives pp. 147-164

Jeffrey Stokes and Peter Tozer

Estimating spatial cattle and swine inventories from limited data pp. 165-172

William L. Bland

Analysing crop yield and plant quality in an intercropping system using an eco-physiological model for interplant competition pp. 173-203

D. T. Baumann, L. Bastiaans, J. Goudriaan, H. H. van Laar and M. J. Kropff

Use of CERES-Maize to study effect of spatial precipitation variability on yield pp. 205-225

Monte R. O'Neal, Jane R. Frankenberger and Daniel R. Ess

A History of Farming Systems Research: Edited by M. Collinson, CABI Publishing, Wallingford, 2000, 432 pp. Price: [pound sign]65.00, Hardback, ISBN 0-85199-405-9 pp. 227-232

John Lynam

Volume 73, issue 1, 2002

Preface pp. 1-2

Michael E. Loevinsohn

Deepening the basis of rural resource management: learning processes and decision support pp. 3-22

Michael E. Loevinsohn, Julio Berdegue and Irene Guijt

Enhancing the adaptive capacity of the resource users in natural resource management pp. 23-39

Jurgen Hagmann and Edward Chuma

Understanding interdependencies: stakeholder identification and negotiation for collective natural resource management pp. 41-56

Helle Munk Ravnborg and Olaf Westermann

Learning about methodology development for integrated soil fertility management pp. 57-81

Toon Defoer

Equitable ecology: collaborative learning for local benefit in Amazonia pp. 83-97

Patricia Shanley and Gloria Rodrigues Gaia

Joint learning with GIS: multi-actor resource management pp. 99-111

Rhodora M. Gonzalez

Decision support, learning and rural resource management pp. 113-127

Daniel Walker

Creating tools for farmers' learning: an application of developmental work research pp. 129-145

Laura Seppanen