The use of agent-based modelling approaches in ex-post and ex-ante evaluations of
agricultural policies has been progressively increasing over the last few years. There are …

Project Management, as the trans-disciplinary arena with the aim to solve problems through
operational strategies and actions, represents a wide technical dominion in which a large …

There is an urgent need for agricultural development strategies that reconcile agricultural
production and biodiversity conservation. This is especially true in the Global South where …

Precision farming (PF) technologies can help to mitigate the environmental impact of
agriculture by reducing fertiliser use and irrigation while saving cost for the farmer. However …

Developed by leading authors in the field, this book offers a cohesive and definitive
theorisation of the concept of the'good farmer', integrating historical analysis, critique of …

The rate and extent of adoption of conservation practices by farmers is influenced, in
principle, by characteristics of the practices and those of the farmers. Governments use …

In this paper, we present a broad conceptualisation of major change in farm level
trajectories. We argue that as a result of path dependency, major changes in farming …

Increasingly, voluntary conservation programs are targeted at farmers to contribute to
biodiversity conservation through tailored on-farm conservation activities. Such programs …

Resilience thinking offers a framework to emphasize dynamics and interdependencies
across time, space and domains. It is based on understanding social–ecological systems as …

UK energy policy promotes biomass energy crops as potentially significant contributors to
renewable energy targets, but few farmers have planted these crops. Amongst the many …