Agricultural Systems

1976 - 2025

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Volume 40, issue 4, 1992

Policy generating systems: Market forces and agricultural and rural development and research pp. 311-332

Peter Smith

Impact of fertilizer use on production and cash income of small-scale farmers in the highland areas of Ethiopia pp. 333-343

Abenet Belete, John L. Dillon and Frank M. Anderson

Modelling the competition for light and nitrogen between rice and Echinochloa crus-galli pp. 345-359

B. Graf and J. E. Hill

Population pressure, land degradation and sustainable agricultural technologies in the Sahel pp. 361-378

Sunder Ramaswamy and John H. Sanders

Modifying the response to defoliation during vegetative growth in CERES-Maize pp. 379-392

A. Weiss and E. L. Piper

Using hierarchical systems aggregation to model the value of information in agricultural systems: An application for climate forecast information pp. 393-412

Michael A. Mazzocco, James W. Mjelde, Steven T. Sonka, Peter J. Lamb and Steven E. Hollinger

Rice policy in Indonesia: By Scott Pearson, Walter Falcon, Paul Heytens, Eric Monke and Rosamund Naylor. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1991. 180 pp. ISBN 0 8014 2524. Price $29.95 (paperback) pp. 413-414

Keijiro Otsuka

Semiarid lands and deserts: Soil resource and reclamation: Edited by J. Skujins. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1991. 668 pp. ISBN 0 8247 8388 3. Price $165 (hardback) pp. 414-416

C. Allan Jones

Volume 40, issue 1-3, 1992

Editorial pp. 1-3

Paul S. Teng and Frits Penning de Vries

Foreword pp. 5-6

Anat Arbhabhirama

Sustainable and increased food production pp. 7-19

R. O. Blake

Agriculture and economic development revisited pp. 21-58

Charles Timmer

Setting agricultural research priorities for the CGIAR pp. 59-103

G. Gryseels, C. T. de Wit, A. McCalla, J. Monyo, A. Kassam, E. Craswell and M. Collinson

Efficacy and efficiency in agricultural research: A systems view pp. 105-123

Jock Anderson and J. B. Hardaker

Resource use efficiency in agriculture pp. 125-151

C. T. de Wit

Systems approaches to agricultural development: The Hawkesbury experience pp. 153-176

R. J. Bawden

Agricultural education: The need for generalists pp. 177-193

S. Jayaraj

Long-term options for land use in the European community pp. 195-210

R. Rabbinge and H. C. Van Latesteijn

Yield forecasting pp. 211-236

T. Horie, M. Yajima and H. Nakagawa

Implementing the systems approach in pest management pp. 237-264

P. S. Teng and S. Savary

Systems approaches to quantify crop-weed interactions and their application in weed management pp. 265-282

M. J. Kropff and L. A. P. Lotz

The impact of irrigation on production and income variability: Simulation of diversion irrigation in the Philippines pp. 283-302

Mark Rosegrant

Volume 39, issue 4, 1992

The economic value of livestock in the communal areas of southern Zimbabwe pp. 339-359

Ian Scoones

Calibrating a diet selection model for sheep grazing rangelands pp. 361-386

A. M. S. McFarland, M. M. Kothmann and H. D. Blackburn

The relationships between cassava variety set characteristics, farmer's food security objectives, environmental and socio-economic conditions in Africa pp. 387-408

Coffi Y. Prudencio, Gabriel C. Orkwor and A. F. K. Kissiedu

Cattle feeding systems and limitations to feed supply in South Sulawesi, Indonesia pp. 409-419

R. Rachmat, W. W. Stur and Graeme J. Blair

Environmental-economic policy assessment: A farm economic approach pp. 421-438

Ada Wossink, T. J. de Koeijer and J. A. Renkema

The agriculture of the Sudan: Edited by G. M. Craig. Oxford University Press, 1991. 468pp. ISBN 019 859210 8. Price: [pound sign]55[middle dot]00 (hardback) pp. 439-441

Michel Baumer

Development in practice: Paved with good intentions: Doug Porter, Bryant Allen, and Gaye Thompson. Routledge, London, 1991. 247 pp. ISBN 0-415-06626-3. Price: [pound sign]14[middle dot]99 (paperback) pp. 441-443

Thomas P. Thompson

The agriculture of China: Xu Guohua and L. J. Peel. Oxford University Press, 1991. 300pp. ISBN 0 19 859208 6. Price: [pound sign]45[middle dot]00 (hardback) pp. 443-444

Wan Xia

Volume 39, issue 3, 1992

Commodity research programs from the demand side pp. 231-252

John K. Lynam and Willem Janssen

Derivation of steady-state herd productivity pp. 253-272

R. Baptist

Potential systems for increasing income from wool in hill and upland sheep flocks in the UK pp. 273-287

G. R. Saul, A. J. F. Russel and A. R. Sibbald

An assessment of an indigenous soil classification used in the caatinga region of Ceara State, Northeast Brazil pp. 289-305

Joao Stacishin de Queiroz and Brien E. Norton

Physical land evaluation methods and GIS to explore the crop growth potential and its effects within the European communities pp. 307-328

H. A. J. van Lanen, C. A. van Diepen, G. J. Reinds, G. H. J. de Koning, J. D. Bulens and A. K. Bregt

Estimating technology's contribution to productivity in the South African sugar industry, 1925-1986 pp. 329-338

P. A. Donovan and W. L. Nieuwoudt

Volume 39, issue 2, 1992

Irrigation scheduling of rice with a crop growth simulation model pp. 115-132

N. H. Rao and D. H. Rees

Dynamic probabilistic modelling of reproduction and replacement management in sow herds. General aspects and model description pp. 133-152

A. W. Jalvingh, A. A. Dijkhuizen and J. A. M. van Arendonk

The effect of climatic risk on dryland farm management pp. 153-175

R. S. Kingwell, D. A. Morrison and A. D. Bathgate

A stochastic model simulating the dairy herd on a PC pp. 177-200

Jan Tind Sorensen, Erik Steen Kristensen and Iver Thysen

Herd dynamics and management strategies for small-scale milk production systems in Southeast Brazil pp. 201-225

N. R. Brockington, J. M. Veil and R. Zoccal

Alternative agriculture: National Research Council, National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20418, 1989. 448 pp. Price: US $19.95 (paperback), US $29.95 (hard cover) ISBN 0 309 03985 1 pp. 227-229

Charles A. Francis

Predicting crop phenology: Edited by Tom Hodges. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1991. 233 pp. Price: $129.95. ISBN 0 8493 6745X pp. 229-230

J. W. White

Volume 39, issue 1, 1992

Optimal replacement in the dairy herd: A multi-component system pp. 1-24

Anders Ringgaard Kristensen

Predictability of grain sorghum and maize yield grown after soybean over a range of environments pp. 25-31

M. D. Clegg

United States agriculture and the general economy: Modeling their interface pp. 33-66

John B. Penson and C. Robert Taylor

Simulation of weight gain and feed consumption of turkeys pp. 67-82

Rajbir S. Parmar, Kenneth C. Diehl, R. Michael Hulet and Eldridge R. Collins

An approach to assessing the economic risk of different drought management tactics on a South Australian pastoral sheep station pp. 83-105

Mark Stafford Smith and Barney Foran

The threatened gene: Food, politics and the loss of genetic diversity: C. Fowler and P. Mooney. Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1990. 278 pp. Price: [pound sign]9[middle dot]95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7188 2830 5. (Published in the USA under the title Shattering, with the same sub-title, by the University of Arizona Press at $12.95.) pp. 107-109

David Wood

Theoretical production ecology: Reflections and prospects: (Simulation Monographs 34). R. Rabbinge et al. (eds). Pudoc, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 1990. 301 pp. ISBN 90 220 1004 X pp. 110-109

Gareth Hughes