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| Lien, Dr. Gudbrand; Hardaker, Prof. J. Brian; Flaten, Dr. Ola. |
| Environmental, social and economic attributes are important for the sustainability of a farming system. Comparing farming systems by considering only expected profitability ignores differences in both sustainability and in the riskiness of system returns. Further, in choosing between farming systems, the ability to survive various risks and shocks and con-tinue in the future is important, i.e., system resilience and persistence are important aspects of sustainabil-ity. Yet resilience and persistence have seldom been directly considered in evaluations of economic sus-tainability. A whole-farm stochastic simulation model over a six-year planning horizon was used to compare organic and conventional cropping systems for a representative farm situation in... |
| Tipo: Conference paper, poster, etc. |
Palavras-chave: Cereals; Pulses and oilseeds Systems research and participatory research Farm economics. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/7190/1/Lien%2C_Hardaker_and_Flaten_final.pdf |
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