Scientific Software Project MPMAS

Involved persons

• Marcelo Carauta
• Johannes Mössinger
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Berger
• Dr. Christian Troost

Involved institutions

• Bioeconomic Modelling
• Land Use Economics in the Tropics and Subtropics (Josef G. Knoll Professorship)
• Food Security Center
• Hohenheim Research Center for Bioeconomy
• Hohenheim Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems
• Hohenheim Tropen
• Institute of Agricultural Sciences in the Tropics (Hans-Ruthenberg-Institute)

Further Information

• MPMAS Homepage

Publications in the course of the project

• ‘Smart’ policies to reduce pesticide use and avoid income trade-offs: An agent-based model applied to Thai agriculture
  2017: Grovermann, C., Schreinemachers, P., Riwthong, S., Berger, T.
  
• Knowledge-Brokering with Agent-Based Models: Some Experiences from Irrigation-Related Research in Chile
  2010: Berger, T., Schilling, C., Troost, C., Latynskiy, E.
  
• Agent-based modeling for ex ante assessment of tree crop technologies: Litchies in northern Thailand.
  2010: Schreinemachers, P., Potchanasin, C., Berger, T., Roygrong, S.
  
• Agent-based land use models for collaborative learning about agri-environmental policies
  2010: Berger, T., Schreinemachers, P.
  
• Farm decisions under dynamic meteorology and the curse of complexity
  2010: Arnold T., Uribe H., Troost C., Berger T.
  
• An overview of computational modeling in agricultural and resource economics
  2009: Nolan, J., Parker, D., Van Kooten, G. C., Berger, T.
  
• The diffusion of greenhouse agriculture in northern Thailand: Combining econometrics and agent-based modeling
  2009: Schreinemachers, P., Berger, T., Sirijinda, A., Praneetvatakul, S.
  
• Step by step calibration of an integrated model system for irrigation management
  2008: Arnold T., Berger T., Uribe H.
  
• Multi-agent models for teaching, extension and collaborative learning
  2008: Berger T., Schreinemachers P.
  
• Simulating soil fertility and poverty dynamics in Uganda: A bio-economic multi-agent systems approach
  2007: Schreinemachers, P., Berger, T., Aune, J. B.
  
• Capturing the Complexity of Water Uses and Water Users within a Multi-Agent Framwork
  2007: Berger, T., Birner, R., Díaz, J., McCarthy, N., Wittmer, H.
  
• Creating Agents and Landscapes for Multiagent Systems from Random Samples
  2006: Berger, T., Schreinemachers, P.
  
• Multi-Agent Simulation for the Targeting of Development Policies in Less-Favored Areas
  2006: Berger, T., Schreinemachers, P., Woelcke, J.
  
• Tradeoffs, efficiency gains and technical change - Modeling water management and land use within a multiple-agent framework
  2002: Berger, T., Ringler, C.
  
• Irrigation Management in Chile: Integrated Modeling of Access to Water.
  2010: Arnold, T., Uribe, H., Troost, C., Berger, T.
  
• An agent-based simulation model of human-environment interactions in agricultural systems
  2011: Schreinemachers, P., Berger, T.
  
• Agricultural commercialization: Risk perceptions, risk management and the role of pesticides in Thailand
  2017: Riwthong, S., Schreinemachers, P., Grovermann, C., Berger, T.,
  
• Non-hazardous pesticide concentrations in surface waters: An integrated approach simulating application thresholds and resulting farm income effects
  2016: Bannwarth, M. A., Grovermann, C., Ingwersen, J., Lamers, M. Berger, T., Streck, T.
  
• Climate variability, food security and poverty: Agent-based assessment of policy options for farm households in Northern Ghana
  2015: Wossen, T., Berger, T.
  
• Climate, energy and environmental policies in agriculture: Simulating likely farmer responses in Southwest Germany
  2015: Troost, C., Walter, T., Berger, T.
  
• Quantifying the economic importance of irrigation water reuse in a Chilean watershed using an integrated agent-based model
  2015: Arnold, R. T., Troost, C., Berger, T.
  
• Dealing with uncertainty in agent-based simulation: Farm-level modeling of adaptation to climate change in Southwest Germany
  2015: Troost, C., Berger, T.
  
• Agent-based Modelling of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Options in Agriculture
  2014: Berger, T., Troost, C.
  
• Assessment of policies for low-carbon agriculture by means of multi-agent simulation
  2014: Latynskiy, E., Berger, T., Troost, C.
  
• Climate variability, consumption risk and poverty in semi-arid Northern Ghana: Adaptation options for poor farm households
  2014: Wossen, T., Berger, T., Swamikannuh, N., Ramilan, T.
  
• Ex-ante assessment of soil conservation methods in the uplands of Vietnam: An agent-based modeling approach
  2013: Quang, D. V., Schreinemachers, P., Berger, T.
  
• A software coupling approach to assess low-cost soil conservation strategies for highland agriculture in Vietnam
  2013: Marohn, C., Schreinemachers, P., Quang, D. V., Berger, T., Siripalangkanont, P., Nguyen, T. T., Cadisch, G.
  
• Agent-based modeling of agricultural adaptation to climate change in a mountainous area of Southwest Germany
  2012: Troost, C., Calberto, G., Berger, T., Ingwersen, J., Priesack, E., Warrach-Sagi, K., Walter, T.
  
• Interpreting Outputs of a Landscape-Scale Coupled Social-Ecological System
  2012: Marohn, C., Schreinemachers, P., Quang, D. V., Siripalangkanont, P., Hörhold, S., Berger, T., Cadisch, G.
  
• Agent-based Modelling in the Agricultural Economics Tradition of Recursive Farm Modelling and Adaptive Micro-Systems
  2012: Berger, T., Troost, C.
  
• Agent-based spatial models applied to agriculture: A simulation tool for technology diffusion, resource use changes and policy analysis
  2001: Berger, T.