MASSAI: Multi-agent system for simulating sustainable agricultural intensification of smallholder farms in Africa.

ABSTRACT: The research and development needed to achieve sustainability of African smallholder agricultural and natural systems has led to a wide array of theoretical frameworks for conceptualising socioecological processes and functions. However, there are few analytical tools for spatio-temporal empirical approaches to implement use cases, which is a prerequisite to understand the performance of smallholder farms in the real world. This study builds a multi-agent system (MAS) to operationalise the Sustainable Agricultural Intensification (SAI) theoretical framework (MASSAI). This is an essential tool for spatio-temporal simulation of farm productivity to evaluate sustainability trends into the future at fine scale of a managed plot. MASSAI evaluates dynamic nutrient transfer using smallholder nutr

SUBMITTER: Mponela P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10643297 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature