| The principal scientific goal of PPS-WU is the integration of knowledge to allow analysis and design of new approaches to the dual goals of sustainable production systems: optimal production of crops and livestock combined with optimal management of natural resources in their broadest sense. We develop tools and methodologies that allow analysis and design of alternative future scenarios at local (farm), regional, national, international and global scales. A special emphasis is on the use of modelling tools, although field oriented and experimental work is also performed as an essential part of testing of our concepts. Much of our work uses comparative approaches which we apply in large interdisciplinary projects such as SEAMLESS, AfricaNUANCES and Competing Claims on Natural Resources. |
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