Investigating Impacts of Alternative Crop Market Scenarios on Land Use Change with an Agent-Based Model

We developed an agent-based model (ABM) to simulate farmers’ decisions on crop type and fertilizer application in response to commodity and biofuel crop prices. Farm profit maximization constrained by farmers’ profit expectations for land committed to biofuel crop production was used as the decision...

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Main Authors: Deng Ding, David Bennett, Silvia Secchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-11-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/4/4/1110