We assessed the impacts of climatic and economic variability on farmers’ adaptive management of agricultural pests in the Ecuadorian Andes. We developed an agent-based model simulating an artificial society of farmers, relying on field data and validated models. Farmers were represented as heterogeneous autonomous agents interacting and influencing each other, and capable of learning and adapting to circumstances.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.comses.net/codebases/4128/releases/1.1.0/