Bio-economic models can be used to assess the impact of policy and environmental measures through economic and environmental indicators. Focusing on agricultural systems, farmers' decisions in terms of cropping systems and the associated crop management at field scale are essential in such...

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I -- Ch. 1. Modelling the relationship between agriculture and the environment using bio-economic models: some conceptual issues -- Ch. 2. Bio physical models as detailed engineering production functions -- Ch. 3. Dynamic optimisation problems: Different...

The disciplinary nature of most existing farm models as well as the issue specific orientation of most of the studies in agricultural systems research are main reasons for the limited use and re-use of bio-economic modelling for the ex-ante integrated assessment of policy decisions. The...

[eng] A bio-economic model for analysing the impact of soil and water conservation policies applied to a tunisian farm . The present study applied on a big farm in Tunisia, based on a double observation relative to the gravity of the erosion and, on the other hand, the importance of public...

The aim of this study is to develop simplified tools and methods in collaboration with local stakeholders to facilitate collective decision-making. The project is based on a series of experiments carried out between farmers and environmental officers and researchers (Aquae Project)1 on the...

Banana monocultures (Musa spp., AAA, Cavendish sub-group cv. Grande Naine) can have a detrimental impact on the environment. In these agro-systems, pesticide treatments can lead to surface and groundwater pollution, as is the case in the tropical insular conditions of the French West Indies....

Prototyping methods are useful for designing alternative crop management systems (CMS), but they are usually considered mainly at the field level and are poorly equipped to take into account farm diversity in terms of economic, social and natural constraints. This may limit the likelihood of...

To meet sustainability challenges, regional water management and planning require approaches that assess the land-use visions of various stakeholders using their own evaluation criteria. Models and information systems are keystones in such integrated assessment activities. SPACSS (the SPAtial...