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Author:   Shailesh Shrestha (SRUC, UK) ,  Professor Andrew Barnes (SRUC, UK) ,  Dr Bouda Vosough Ahmadi (FAO, Italy) ,  Maria Maria (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.719kg
ISBN:  

9781780644288

ISBN 10:   1780644280
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   28 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Part 1: Farm-level Assessments 1: Policy Impact Assessment 2: Positive Mathematical Programming 3: Modelling Farm-level Adaptations Under External Shocks 4: Farm-level Modelling, Risk and Uncertainty 5: Modelling Farm-level Biosecurity Management 6: Modelling Farm Efficiency 7: Quantifying Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Identifying Cost-effective Mitigation Measures Part 2: Modelling beyond the farm gate 8: Moving Beyond the Farm: Representing Farms in Regional Modelling 9: Farm-level Microsimulation Models 10: Scaling Up and Out: Agent-Based Modelling to Include Farmer Regimes 11: Catchment-level Modelling 12: Modelling Food Supply Chains 13: Linkage of a Farm Group Model to a Partial Equilibrium Model 14: Conclusions: The State-of-the-art of Farm Modelling and Promising Directions

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Shailesh Shrestha (Edited By) is an agricultural economist in the Land Economy, Environment and Society (LEES) Research Group of Scotland's Rural College (SRUC). His main research interests are in policy impact assessments, mathematical modelling, farming system analysis, farm-level adaptations and climate change. Andrew Barnes (Edited By) is an agricultural economist and Reader in Innovation and Behavioural Change within the Land Economy, Environment and Society (LEES) Research Group of Scotland's Rural College (SRUC). His main research focus is on capturing the impacts of policy change and farmer behaviour at the farm and catchment level within a modelling framework. He currently leads the Policy, Innovation and Behaviours Team at SRUC Bouda Vosough Ahmadi (Edited By) Dr Bouda Vosough Ahmadi is a veterinarian and animal-health and welfare economist currently working at the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome. His main research focus is on agricultural policies and economics and policies of animal-health and animal welfare. He currently leads socioeconomic impact assessment studies of livestock diseases at EuFMD/FAO.

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