China is the world’s largest producer and consumer of agricultural products, but the intensive agriculture contributes in a remarkable manner to environmental problems. Since environmental protection has recently become a popular issue in China, the government attaches great importance to the...

The negative effects of uncertainty and on perceived absorptive capacity indicates that identified problems with respect to the use of animal manures do not motivate farmers to search for external knowledge in order to solve these problems but, in contrary, they will be less inclined to learn...

This paper reports and discusses the results of a survey conducted with experts working in the field of decision support systems (DSS) in Australian agriculture. It also reviews the literature on DSS in the light of these experts' responses. The findings from this survey have consolidated our...