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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3200| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Suitability evaluation system for the production and sourcing of agricultural commodities |
| Authors: | Jaisli, Isabel Laube, Patrick Trachsel, Sonja Ochsner, Pascal Schuhmacher, Sarah |
| DOI: | 10.21256/zhaw-3200 10.1016/j.compag.2018.02.002 |
| Published in: | Computers and Electronics in Agriculture |
| Volume(Issue): | 161 |
| Page(s): | 170 |
| Pages to: | 184 |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0168-1699 1872-7107 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Suitability assessment; GIS |
| Subject (DDC): | 338.927: Environmental economics and sustainable development 630: Agriculture |
| Abstract: | This article presents CONSUS (Connecting for Sustainable Sourcing), a modular GIS-based decision-support system for producing and sourcing agricultural commodities. The system extends the classic FAO land evaluation approaches in three specific dimensions: (i) the sustainability dimension: the extended suitability analysis reaches beyond purely biophysical suitability and integrates ecological, economic and social suitability; (ii) the value chain dimension: the focus of suitability analysis includes further upstream activities relevant for product trading; (iii) the spatio-temporal dimension: the inclusion of an adaptive global crop cycle model and scale-specific suitability modules allow for multi-scale suitability evaluation that considers cropping seasons; The system was implemented as a flexible tool set, featuring knowledge databases, GIS toolboxes, and supporting data processing modules. CONSUS emerged from a series of third party funded applied research projects. Two of these serve in this article as case studies illustrating the capabilities of the system: one global case study on the sourcing of hazelnuts, and one regional case study on suitability of soybean production in Rwanda. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/7487 |
| Fulltext version: | Accepted version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International |
| Restricted until: | 2021-07-01 |
| Departement: | Life Sciences and Facility Management |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR) |
| Published as part of the ZHAW project: | CONSUS |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management |
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| CONSUS_CompElectronicsAgri_V20_acc.pdf | Accepted Version | 2.28 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |
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