Why Don’t More Farmers Go Organic? Using A Stakeholder-Informed Exploratory Agent-Based Model to Represent the Dynamics of Farming Practices in the Philippines

In spite of a growing interest in organic agriculture; there has been relatively little research on why farmers might choose to adopt organic methods, particularly in the developing world. To address this shortcoming, we developed an exploratory agent-based model depicting Philippine smallholder far...

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Main Authors: Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Ryan Qi Wang, Arika Ligmann-Zielinska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-10-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/4/4/979