Agricultural Systems

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Volume 46, issue 4, 1994

Adoption of soybean in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative analysis of production and utilization in Zaire and Nigeria pp. 369-384

Dennis A. Shannon and M. Mwamba Kalala

Characterization of rice cropping practices and multiple pest systems in the Philippines pp. 385-408

S. Savary, F. A. Elazegui, K. Moody, J. A. Litsinger and P. S. Teng

Learning from six reasons why farmers do not adopt innovations intended to improve sustainability of upland agriculture pp. 409-425

Sam Fujisaka

A technique to develop and validate simulation models pp. 427-442

P. N. Jones and P. S. Carberry

Returns to beef research in Canada: A comparison of time series and mathematical programming approaches pp. 443-459

K. K. Klein, B. Freeze, J. Stephen Clark and Glenn Fox

Econometric analysis of private access to communal grazing lands in South Africa: A case study of Ciskei pp. 461-471

Francis D. K. Anim and Mike C. Lyne

Research with farmers: Lessons from Ethiopia: Edited by Steven Franzel and Helen van Houten. CAB International, Wallingford, UK, for the Institute of Agricultural Research, Ethiopia, 1992. 303 pp. Price [pound sign]30.00, $57.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 85198 814 8 pp. 473-475

Robert Tripp

Product development for root and tuber crops (desarrollo de productos de raices y tuberculos)--Volume 1, Asia: Edited by G. J. Scott, S. Wiersema and P. I. Ferguson. International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, 1992. 384 pp. Price: LDCs $15, DCs $30 (paperback). ISBN 92 9060 161 2 pp. 475-476

Horace D. Graham

Tropical African development: Edited by M. B. Gleave. Longman Scientific and Technical, Harlow, 1992. 366 pp. Price: US$34.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 582 30147 5 pp. 477-478

Simon E. Carter

Soil conservation and sustainable land use. An economic approach: Jan de Graaff. KIT Press, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, 1993. 191 pp. Price Dfl 45 (paperback). ISBN 90 6832 042 4 pp. 478-479

Philip K. Thornton

Volume 46, issue 3, 1994

Complementary instruments to EEC nitrogen policy in non-sensitive areas: A case study in Southern Spain pp. 245-255

Slim Zekri and A. Casimiro Herruzo

Potential production of Boro rice in the Haor region of Bangladesh: Part 1. The simulation model, validation and sensitivity analysis pp. 257-278

M. U. Salam, P. R. Street and J. G. W. Jones

Potential production of Boro rice in the Haor region of Bangladesh: Part 2. Simulation experiments on the effects of management variables and flooding time pp. 279-293

M. U. Salam, P. R. Street and J. G. W. Jones

Potential production of Boro rice in the Haor region of Bangladesh: Part 3. Normative analysis using a simulation model pp. 295-310

M. U. Salam, P. R. Street and J. G. W. Jones

An optimization model of the dual-purpose cattle production system in the humid lowlands of Venezuela pp. 311-334

Charles F. Nicholson, David R. Lee, Richard N. Boisvert, Robert W. Blake and C. Isabella Urbina

CropSyst, a cropping systems simulation model: Water/nitrogen budgets and crop yield pp. 335-359

Claudio O. Stockle, Steve A. Martin and Gaylon S. Campbell

Quantitative aspects of ruminant digestion and metabolism: Edited by J. M. Forbes and J. France. CAB International, Wallingford, 1993. 515 pp. Price: [pound sign]65 (hardback). ISBN 0 85198 831 8 pp. 361-362

N. R. Brockington

The pesticide question: Environment, economics and ethics: Edited by D. Pimentel and H. Lehman. Chapman and Hall, New York, 1993. 441 pp. Price: US$45.00 (hardback). ISBN 0 412 03581 2 pp. 362-364

John D. Mumford

Conservation policies for sustainable hillslope farming: Edited by Sitanala Arsyad, Istiqial Amien, Ted Sheng and William Moldenhauer. Soil and Water Conservation Society, Ankeny, IA, 1992. 364 pp. Price: $30. ISBN 0 935734 28 7 pp. 364-365

J. Keith Syers

Basics of insect modelling: Edited by J. L. Goodenough and J. M. McKinion. ASAE Monograph Number 10, 1992. 221 pp. Price: US$49 (hardback) ($39 to ASAE members). ISBN 0 929355 31 8 pp. 365-367

Gareth Edwards-Jones

Volume 46, issue 2, 1994

Modelling tillering of annual grasses as a function of plant density: Application to Sahelian rangelands productivity and dynamics pp. 121-139

P. Hiernaux, P. N. De Leeuw and L. Diarra

Cooperation and innovation by farmer groups: Scale in the development of Rwandan valley farming systems pp. 141-155

Michael E. Loevinsohn, Johnson Mugarura and Augustin Nkusi

Risk-return substitutions in cattle marketing systems in Alabama pp. 157-168

Ebenezer F. Kolajo and Neil R. Martin

Rice-Wheat in South Asia: Systems and long-term priorities established through diagnostic research pp. 169-187

Sam Fujisaka, Larry Harrington and Peter Hobbs

Perception and management of farmyard manure in the semi-arid tropics of India pp. 189-204

P. P. Motavalli, R. P. Singh and M. M. Anders

A simulation model of an alpaca system in the dry puna of the Andes pp. 205-225

Blanca A. Arce, Claudio Aguilar, Raul Canas and Roberto A. Quiroz

Identifying target groups for livestock improvement research: The classification of sedentary livestock producers in Western Niger pp. 227-237

Timothy O. Williams

An atlas of cassava in Africa: Historical, agroecological and demographic aspects of crop distribution: S. E. Carter, L. O. Fresco and P. G. Jones, with J. N. Fairbairn. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, CIAT Publication No. 206, Cali, Colombia, June 1992. 86 pp. Price: US $60.00. ISBN 958 9183 38 7 pp. 239-242

David J. Campbell

Agroindustrial project analysis: Critical design factors: 2nd Edition. J. E. Austin. Published for the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992. 258 pp. Price: US $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8018 4530 0 pp. 243-244

F. L. Olson

Volume 46, issue 1, 1994

A framework to deal with uncertainty in soil and management parameters in crop yield simulation: A case study for rice pp. 1-17

B. A. M. Bouman

An analysis of alternative cropping decision rules pp. 19-31

Frank S. Novak, Glen W. Armstrong, C. Robert Taylor and Leonard Bauer

Potential for short-rotation intensive-culture hardwood production in Hawaii pp. 33-57

Victor D. Phillips, Wei Liu, Robert A. Merriam and Devindar Singh

Soil conservation practices and farm income in the Dominican Republic pp. 59-77

Sang Won Hwang, Jeffrey Alwang and George Norton

Regional yield estimation using a crop simulation model: Concepts, methods, and validation pp. 79-92

Thomas N. Moen, Harry Kaiser and Susan J. Riha

The use of crop yield prediction as a tool for land evaluation studies in Northern Australia pp. 93-111

A. K. L. Johnson, R. A. Cramb and M. K. Wegener

Farm animals and the environment: Edited by C. J. C. Phillips and D. Piggins. CAB International, Oxfordshire, 1992. 430 pp. Price: [pound sign]52.50, US$99.75 (hardback). ISBN 0 85198 788 5 pp. 113-114

Michael Appleby

Aid to African agriculture: Lessons from two decades of donor's experience: Edited by U. Lele. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1991. 627pp. Price: $52.95. ISBN 0-8018-4366-9 pp. 114-120

John K. Lynam

Volume 45, issue 4, 1994

A plant process-economic model for wild oats management decisions in irrigated barley pp. 355-368

C. M. Dunan, F. D. Moore and P. Westra

A mechanistic model of mammary gland metabolism in the lactating cow pp. 369-419

M. D. Hanigan and R. L. Baldwin

Optimization with fuzzy constraints in agricultural production planning pp. 421-441

Arnold Sher and Ilan Amir

Relaxation of nutrient requirements on livestock rations through interactive multigoal programming pp. 443-453

Pablo Lara and Carlos Romero

Identifying research priorities in developing countries pp. 455-468

P. J. Smith

Economics of village cattle production in tsetse affected areas of Africa: A study of trypanosomiasis control using trypanotolerant cattle and chemotherapy in Ethiopia, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Zaire, and Togo: Pradeep Itty. Hartung-Gorre Verlag, Konstanz, 1992. 316 pp. DM 88. ISBN 3 89191 607 8 pp. 469-470

David G. Smith

The pesticide hazard: A global health and environmental audit: Compiled by Barbara Dinham. Zed Books, London, 1993. 228 pp. Price [pound sign]12.95, US$ 19.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 85649 202 8 pp. 470-472

David Pimentel

System approaches for agricultural development: Edited by Frits Penning de Vries, Paul Teng and Klaas Metselaar. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1993. 542 pp. Price US$255.00 (hardback) from the publishers, or US$50.00 plus $13.00 airmail postage (paperback) from IRRI. ISBN 0 7923 1880 3 (hardback), 0 7923 1881 1 (paperback) pp. 472-474

Jeffrey W. White

Volume 45, issue 3, 1994

A decision support system for land use planning at farm enterprise level pp. 239-257

M. A. Sharifi and H. Van Keulen

An economic and environmental assessment of alternative forage-resource production systems: A goal-programming approach pp. 259-270

W. A. Fiske, G. E. D'Souza, J. J. Fletcher, T. T. Phipps, W. B. Bryan and E. C. Prigge

Using crop models to plan water withdrawals for irrigation in drought years pp. 271-289

James E. Hook

Indiana soybean system model (ISSM): II. Mexican bean beetle model development, integration and evaluation pp. 291-313

Kumar Nagarajan, R. J. O'Neil, C. R. Edwards and J. Lowenberg-DeBoer

The value of information concerning near-optimal nitrogen fertilizer scheduling pp. 315-330

P. K. Thornton and J. F. MacRobert

A time-dependent bioeconomic model of commercial beef breed choices pp. 331-347

Bryan E. Melton, W. Arden Colette, Kenneth J. Smith and Richard L. Willham

Crop ecology: Productivity and management in agricultural systems: R. S. Loomis and D. J. Connor. Cambridge University Press, 1992. 538 pp. Price: US$89.95 (hardback). ISBN O 521 38739 X pp. 349-350

Walter Bowen

Biotic diversity in agroecosystems: Edited by M. G. Paoletti and D. Pimentel. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1992. 356 pp. Price: Dutch f210, US $120 (hardback). ISBN 0 444 89390 3 pp. 350-352

David Wood

Managing sustainable development: Michael Carley and Ian Christie. Earthscan Publications Ltd, London, 1992. 303 pp. Price: [pound sign]12.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 85383 129 8 pp. 352-354

Larry Harrington

Volume 45, issue 2, 1994

Monocropping, intercropping or crop rotation? An economic case study from the West African Guinea savannah with special reference to risk pp. 123-143

Gregor Peter and Artur Runge-Metzger

A network model that determines the optimal path of breed-crossing decisions to maximize net returns pp. 145-154

Sara M. Azzam and Azzeddine Azzam

Estimating nitrogen percolation relationships: An application of tobit analysis pp. 155-173

Mark L. Teague, Daniel J. Bernardo, George J. Sabbagh and Samuel Geleta

Dryland pasture improvement given climatic risk pp. 175-190

R. S. Kingwell and S. G. M. Schilizzi

Risk attitude and dryland farm management pp. 191-202

R. S. Kingwell

Statistical experiments with simulation models--A dairy genetics example pp. 203-216

D. G. Mayer, M. L. Tierney and P. N. Thurbon

A decision support system for dairy farmers and advisors pp. 217-231

David D. Mainland

Natural rubber: Biology, cultivation and technology: Edited by M. R. Sethuraj & N. M. Mathew, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1992. 610 pp. Price US$ 231.00 or DFL. 370.00. ISBN 0 444 88329 0 pp. 233-235

C. C. Webster

Tropical forests and their crops: N. J. H. Smith, J. T. Williams, D. L. Plucknett and J. P. Talbot, Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London, 1992. 568 pp. Price: US$ 27.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-8014-2771-1 (cloth), 0-8014-8054-2 (paper) pp. 235-237

Anthony Young

Volume 45, issue 1, 1994

An empirical oviposition model of bollworms (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in cotton representing stochasticity due to migration pp. 1-18

Lukas P. Schaub and Nicholas D. Stone

Models of energy analysis to assess the performance of food systems pp. 19-41

Mario Giampietro, Sandra G. F. Bukkens and David Pimentel

Modeling the rate and quantity of forage intake by ruminants during meals pp. 43-53

D. S. Fisher and R. Baumont

Validation of a dynamic lettuce growth model for greenhouse climate control pp. 55-72

E. J. Van Henten

An integrated expert system for optimal crop planning pp. 73-92

Amnon Nevo, Ramchand Oad and Terence H. Podmore

Regression of real-world data on model output: An appropriate overall test of validity pp. 93-104

D. G. Mayer, M. A. Stuart and A. J. Swain

Quantifying soil erosion for the Shihmen reservoir watershed, Taiwan pp. 105-116

Kwong Fai A. Lo

Crop-livestock interaction in sub-Saharan Africa: J. McIntire, D. Bourzat and P. Pingali. The World Bank, Washington, DC, 1992. 246 pp. Price: $ 15.95 (Paperback). ISBN 0-8213-2166-8 pp. 117-118

M. Upton

Simulation: a statistical perspective: Jack Kleijnen and Willem van Groenendaal. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1992. 241 pp. Price [pound sign]16.50 or $37.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 471 93055 5. Exercise Diskette [pound sign]12.50 or $28.50. ISBN 0 471 93811 4 pp. 118-119

Philip K. Thornton

The political economy of agricultural pricing policy, volume 5: A synthesis of the political economy in developing countries: Anne O. Kruger, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1992. 158 pp. Price $ 32.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 8018 4294 8 pp. 119-120

G. H. Peters

Farming systems of Pakistan: Edited by D. Byerlee and Tariq Husain. Vanguard Books, Lahore, 1992. 327 pp. Price: Pak. Rs. 395 (Hardback). ISBN 969 402 063 8 pp. 121-122

J. D. H. Keatinge