TY - BOOK AU - Vries,Frits Penning de AU - Teng,Paul AU - Metselaar,Klaas ED - International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development TI - Systems approaches for agricultural development: proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development, 2-6 December 1991, Bangkok, Thailand T2 - Systems Approaches for Sustainable Agricultural Development SN - 0792318811 U1 - 631.58 23rd PY - 1993/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers KW - Agricultural systems KW - Congresses KW - Crops KW - Mathematical models KW - Research KW - Rice N1 - Includes bibliography and index N2 - This volume contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on Systems Approaches for Agricultural Development (held 2–6 December 1991 in Bangkok). It collects plenary reviews and contributed papers on systems approaches applied to agriculture — covering conceptual frameworks, modeling techniques, case studies from tropical and temperate countries, and methodological papers on mathematical models and decision support for cropping systems and farm-level research. The book includes both high-level reviews and technical papers presented in concurrent sessions, with emphasis on optimizing scarce resources, sustainability, intensification, and the application of systems thinking to crop and farming systems research ER -