%D 2015
%L icrisat10453
%O This is an Editorial
%I Elsevier
%T Systems research helping to meet the needs and managing the
trade-offs of a changing world
%P 1475-1477
%V 14
%N 8
%A P S Carberry
%A S Geng
%A L Wei-Li
%A L Ling-ling
%J Journal of Integrative Agriculture
%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...
%K Systems research, trade-offs, agricultural research, system thinking