Farming Systems SIMulator: First Generic Bio-economic Farm Model
Policymakers and farmers have an interest in making ex-ante assessments of the outcomes of
their choices in terms of policy and farm plan (cf. Zander & Kächele, 1999; EC, 2005). A
Bio-Economic Farm Model (BEFM) is defined as a model that links formulations describing
farmers¿ resource management decisions to formulations that describe current and alternative
production possibilities in terms of required inputs to achieve certain outputs and associated
externalities. Janssen & Van Ittersum (2007) recently reviewed the usefulness of BEFMs for
predicting the impact of policy changes and identified a lack of re-use of BEFMs, e.g., models
were only used for one purpose and location for which they were initially developed and not
for other purposes or locations afterwards. Instead in cropping systems models, the re-use for
diverse purposes and locations is wide-spread. This lack of re-use for other purposes and
locations might hinder the usefulness of BEFM for policy assessment. In SEAMLESS
(System for Environmental and Agricultural Modelling: Linking European Science and
Society), we choose to develop the Farming Systems SIMulator (FSSIM) as a generic bioeconomic
farm model. Here we define generic as being useful for a range of agrienvironmental
zones, different farm types, different innovations or policy questions and
applications that require different level of detail in input or output data. The objective of this
contribution is to introduce FSSIM as a generic BEFM model, to present its structure and how
it can be applied for different purposes.
JANSSEN Sander;
LOUHICHI Kamel;
KANELLOPOULOS Argyris;
ZANDER Peter;
FLICHMAN Guillermo;
HENGSDIJK Huib;
LI Hongtao;
HECKELEI Thomas;
STOKSTAD Grete;
BORKOWSKI Nina;
HECKER J.Martin;
OUDE LANSINK Alfons;
BLANCO FONSECA Maria;
MEUTER E;
VAN ITTERSUM Martin;
2009-12-14
Wageningen University and Research Centre
JRC55293
http://www.conference-agsap.org/,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC55293,
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