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240 increase food production by 70 %, or nearly 100 % in low-income countries, by 2050 to cope with the expected increases in po ...
2 41 practices, tactics within alternative strategies and competing objectives, in the back- ground of the need for increasing p ...
242 The basic principle in this model is that the main determinants of crop production in dryland cropping systems are water ava ...
243 ronment. In West Asia and Northern Africa, Cooper et al. ( 1987 ) promoted manage- ment practices favouring rapid canopy gro ...
244 the simple approach from French and Schulz with participatory modelling activities using Agricultural Production Systems Sim ...
245 soil pH, erosion and a full range of management controls. APSIM has been tested in a diverse range of systems and environmen ...
246 and maize (Chauhan et al. 2013 ) were used to derive the frequency of occurrence for contrasting water-stress patterns acros ...
247 2.6 Modelling Farms and Farmers Farms are complex systems (Fig. 6 ) and modelling dryland agricultural systems is a valuable ...
248 to a great extent known giving us confidence in the use of more integrative whole- farm modelling tools. In combination with ...
249 The whole-farm model APSFarm (Rodriguez et al. 2011 ) developed over the last 10 years is an extended configuration of APSIM ...
250 Fig. 7 Sensitivity of two farm businesses characterized by contrasting degrees of plasticity (flexibility in decision making ...
251 and used in the calculation of farm profits (i.e. before tax). Therefore, outputs from APSFarm include, but are not limited ...
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