Authors
CJ Klapwijk, MT Van Wijk, Todd S Rosenstock, Piet JA van Asten, Philip K Thornton, Ken E Giller
Publication date
2014/2/1
Source
Current opinion in Environmental sustainability
Volume
6
Pages
110-115
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- We review recent advances in trade-off analysis in agricultural systems.
- Techniques for performing trade-off analyses have developed substantially in recent years.
- Progress has not improved their limited utility for informing practical decision-making.
- We provide concrete suggestions to improve this situation.
Trade-off analysis has become an increasingly important approach for evaluating system level outcomes of agricultural production and for prioritizing and targeting management interventions in multifunctional agricultural landscapes. We review the state-of-the-art for trade-off analysis, assessing different techniques by exploring a concrete example of trade-offs around the use of crop residues in smallholder farming systems. The techniques for performing trade-off analyses have developed substantially in recent years aided by mathematical advancement, increased computing power, and emerging …
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