Designing Sustainable Food Security Policies in Sub-Saharan African Countries: How Social Dynamics Over-Ride Utility Evaluations for Good and Bad

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 575-589

  Kopainsky, Birgit ^a   Tröger, Katharine ^b   Derwisch, Sebastian ^a,c   Ulli Beer, Silvia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Central Advisory Service on Intellectual Property (CAS IP)   (Italy)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Food security; Innovation adoption and diffusion; Policy analysis; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; FOOD SECURITY; INNOVATION ADOPTION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; POLICY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD SUPPLY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEM THEORY;

SEED;

EID: 84870006153     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.2140     Document Type: Article

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