A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize-cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part II—Emulating the farming system

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cg.coverage.countryMexico
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MX
cg.coverage.regionCentral America
cg.creator.identifierMario Herrero: 0000-0002-7741-5090
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/s0308-521x(01)00110-x
cg.issn0308-521X
cg.issue1
cg.journalAgricultural Systems
cg.subject.ilriCROP-LIVESTOCK
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL FEEDING
cg.subject.ilriFARMING SYSTEMS
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCK
cg.volume75
dc.contributor.authorCastelán-Ortega, O.A.
dc.contributor.authorFawcett, R.H.
dc.contributor.authorArriaga-Jordán, C.
dc.contributor.authorHerrero, Mario
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-02T13:25:10Zen
dc.date.available2010-08-02T13:25:10Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/2119
dc.titleA Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize-cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part II—Emulating the farming systemen
dcterms.abstractThis paper describes the functioning and validation of the Decision Support Systems described in the first part of the paper. The DSS ran three case studies with different farm sizes that represent the range of farmers found in the Valley. The DSS results were validated against survey data for the same cases. Traditional technologies for maize and milk production were reproduced by the DSS including land use and cattle feeding systems. The generic nature of the DSS was demonstrated as well as its capacity to deal with the system's socio-economic and biological aspects. The results suggest that the DSS was successful in reproducing the functioning of the farming system's main components. More importantly it simulated the complex interactions observed between the farmers and their crops and cattle. Finally, it is acknowledged that despite the size and complexity of the DSS, it only was able to emulate the functioning of the main components of the farming system.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCastelan-Ortega, O.A.; Fawcett, R.H.; Arriaga-Jordan, C.; Herrero, M. 2003. A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize-cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part II - Emulating the farming system. Agricultural Systems 75(1):23-46.en
dcterms.descriptionLivestockFuturesen
dcterms.extentp. 23-46
dcterms.issued2003-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherElsevier
dcterms.subjectmixed farmingen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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