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Supporting Decision for Environment-Friendly Practices in the Agri-Food Sector: When Argumentation and System Dynamics Simulation Complete Each Other

Supporting Decision for Environment-Friendly Practices in the Agri-Food Sector: When Argumentation and System Dynamics Simulation Complete Each Other

Rallou Thomopoulos, Bernard Moulin, Laurent Bedoussac
Copyright: © 2018 |Volume: 9 |Issue: 3 |Pages: 21
ISSN: 1947-3192|EISSN: 1947-3206|EISBN13: 9781522545224|DOI: 10.4018/IJAEIS.2018070101
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Thomopoulos, Rallou, et al. "Supporting Decision for Environment-Friendly Practices in the Agri-Food Sector: When Argumentation and System Dynamics Simulation Complete Each Other." IJAEIS vol.9, no.3 2018: pp.1-21. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAEIS.2018070101

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Thomopoulos, R., Moulin, B., & Bedoussac, L. (2018). Supporting Decision for Environment-Friendly Practices in the Agri-Food Sector: When Argumentation and System Dynamics Simulation Complete Each Other. International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), 9(3), 1-21. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAEIS.2018070101

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Thomopoulos, Rallou, Bernard Moulin, and Laurent Bedoussac. "Supporting Decision for Environment-Friendly Practices in the Agri-Food Sector: When Argumentation and System Dynamics Simulation Complete Each Other," International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS) 9, no.3: 1-21. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJAEIS.2018070101

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Abstract

High-level decision-making, such as policy making, needs to take into account the often-conflicting interests of different stakeholders with the goal of finding solutions to provide trade-offs and build consensus towards the adoption of so-called win-win solutions. In this article, the authors suggest that using a modeling and simulation approach would greatly enrich the deliberation process. The authors propose a systematic method to assess possible options, based on the complementarity of argumentation modeling and system dynamics (SD) simulation, in conjunction with field experimentation. As a practical application, the authors assess various options available to agri-food chain stakeholders when considering the adoption of cereal-legume intercrops as an alternative to sole crops. Taking advantage of the argument analysis, SD simulations are used to: 1) compare different cultural strategies available to farmers in current operating, market and regulatory conditions; 2) propose plausible what-if scenarios anticipating technological progress, and exploring the impact of adopting potential incentives and dissuasive regulatory measures.

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