A Decision Support System for smallholder campesino maize-cattle production systems of the Toluca Valley in Central Mexico. Part I - Integrating biological and socio-economic models into a holistic system

Agricultural Systems

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-21

  Castelán Ortega, Octavio A ^a   Fawcett, Roy H ^b   Arriaga Jordán, Carlos ^a   Herrero, Mario ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Biological simulation models; Campesino farmers; Decision support systems; Socio economic simulation models

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MAIZE; MIXED FARMING; SMALLHOLDER;

MEXICO;

BOS TAURUS; TOLUCA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0037262027     PISSN: 0308521X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-521X(01)00109-3     Document Type: Article

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