Agro-ecology with the needs of humans and animals built in may provide a suitable farming model to work from.
When costs of input keep increasing, but are not counted when measuring productivity, small and marginal farmers are pushed into a high-cost farming model that results in debt and, in extreme cases, the epidemic of farmers' suicides that we have now witnessed.
His four hectares gives the highest yields, and all of it is based on a sustainable organic farming model.
But amidst complex discussions about the effects of chemical farming practices on public health, whether to choose an industrial or regenerative farming model, and the profitability of future crops, Maui stands at the crossroads between America's farming past and its green future.
This study presents the use of a whole farm model in a participatory modelling research approach to examine the sensitivity of four contrasting case study farms to a likely climate change scenario.
In this paper a fault detection system and a fault tolerant controller for a wind farm model is designed and tested.
As a case study we therefore estimate the possible environmental and economic impacts of different mitigation policies (emission tax, emission cap, nitrogen tax, and livestock extensification) for typical farming systems in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg by coupling an economic farm model with a biophysical model.
Based on these data, a regional farm model is designed to show the total effects of a soil conservation programme.
To evaluate the performances of this controller, a wind farm model consisting of 9 (3 × 3 wind turbine array) turbines was developed.
In a case study area in the Netherlands, a bio-economic farm model, an agent-based land-use change model, and a regional emission model have been used to simulate rural development under two plausible global change scenarios at both farm and landscape level.
