%0 Journal Article %@ 2095-3119 %A Carberry, P S %A Geng, S %A Wei-Li, L %A Ling-ling, L %D 2015 %F icrisat:10453 %I Elsevier %J Journal of Integrative Agriculture %K Systems research, trade-offs, agricultural research, system thinking %N 8 %P 1475-1477 %T Systems research helping to meet the needs and managing the trade-offs of a changing world %U http://oar.icrisat.org/10453/ %V 14 %X Facing the challenges of an increasing world population, a changing climate and ever depleting resources, agricultural is one of the few options for meeting the demand of food security. It is necessary to apply a dynamic and systematic approach to effectively manage the complex agri-eco production and green processing systems. Indeed, farming systems approach for appropriate technology development and simulation modeling is a result of adopting the system thinking by the agricultural research community... %Z This is an Editorial