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

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  • Rallou Thomopoulos

    (INRA Iate / INRIA GraphIK, Montpellier, France)

  • Bernard Moulin

    (Laval University, Quebec, Canada)

  • Laurent Bedoussac

    (AGIR, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France)

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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  • Rallou Thomopoulos & Bernard Moulin & Laurent Bedoussac, 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), IGI Global, vol. 9(3), pages 1-21, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jaeis0:v:9:y:2018:i:3:p:1-21
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    1. Chaib, Romy Lynn & Macombe, Catherine & Thomopoulos, Rallou, 2022. "Adapting a participatory modelling method to forecast food system scenarios: a case study on the pork value-chain," Economia agro-alimentare / Food Economy, Italian Society of Agri-food Economics/Società Italiana di Economia Agro-Alimentare (SIEA), vol. 24(3), December.
    2. Rallou Thomopoulos, 2018. "A practical application approach to argumentation for multicriteria analysis and decision support," EURO Journal on Decision Processes, Springer;EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies, vol. 6(3), pages 237-255, November.
    3. Romy Lynn Chaib & Catherine Macombe & Rallou Thomopoulos, 2022. "Adapting a participatory modelling method to forecast food system scenarios: a case study on the pork value-chain," Economia agro-alimentare, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 24(3), pages 1-37.

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