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AMBAWA, an Agent-based Model of Biomass flows in Agropastoral areas of West Africa (1.0.0)

In the agro pastoral areas of West Africa crop residues are a common property resource grazed by free-roaming village or transhumant livestock during the dry season. New crop management practices based on recycling of crop residues as compost or their use in conservation agriculture are promoted by research and development programs in order to improve soil fertility. These practices can potentially improve crop yields for individual farmers but can also lead to conflicts for the access of this resource, especially between non-livestock owners and livestock owners. AMBAWA (Agent-based Model of Biomass flows in Agropastoral areas) allows representing the flows of biomass between crop and livestock systems at the field, farm, and village scales in order to assess the effect of innovating management practices on farm productivity in West Africa.

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AMBAWA, an Agent-based Model of Biomass flows in Agropastoral areas of West Africa 1.0.0

Submitted by Christophe Le Page Published Nov 23, 2015 Last modified Apr 12, 2020
west africa conservation agriculture livestock

In the agro pastoral areas of West Africa crop residues are a common property resource grazed by free-roaming village or transhumant livestock during the dry season. New crop management practices based on recycling of crop residues as compost or their use in conservation agriculture are promoted by research and development programs in order to improve soil fertility. These practices can potentially improve crop yields for individual farmers but can also lead to conflicts for the access of this resource, especially between non-livestock owners and livestock owners. AMBAWA (Agent-based Model of Biomass flows in Agropastoral areas) allows representing the flows of biomass between crop and livestock systems at the field, farm, and village scales in order to assess the effect of innovating management practices on farm productivity in West Africa.

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version 2 uploaded in April 2020

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David Berre, Christophe Le Page, Tidiane Diarisso, Nadine Andrieu, Marc Corbeels, François Bousquet, Pablo Tittonell (2015, November 23). “AMBAWA, an Agent-based Model of Biomass flows in Agropastoral areas of West Africa” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/4808/releases/1.0.0/

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Contributors
David Berre Christophe Le Page Tidiane Diarisso Nadine Andrieu Marc Corbeels François Bousquet Pablo Tittonell
DOI
No assigned DOI
Model Version
1.0.0
License
CC-BY-4.0
Programming Language
Smalltalk
Software Framework
Cormas
Operating System
Windows
Publish Date
Monday, November 23, 2015
Last Updated
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Downloads 486
Peer Review
Unreviewed
Version Submitter First published Last modified Status
1.2.0 Christophe Le Page Sun Apr 12 14:35:00 2020 Sun Apr 12 14:35:00 2020 Published
1.0.0 Christophe Le Page Mon Nov 23 12:22:58 2015 Sun Apr 12 14:17:08 2020 Published

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