One of the challenges to understanding the dynamics of agricultural systems has long been the fact that while many decisions are made at the individual farm household level, the landscape and market level consequences are more complex than a simple aggregation of those choices. My new paper in Food Policy journal, supported by Humidtropics, lays out an innovative modeling approach to better link local, landscape and market level processes. This is an example of the types of new approaches that Humidtropics is developing to better tackle the complexities of agricultural systems. ‘From … [Read more...]