| Article ID: | iaor20032345 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 62 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 131 |
| End Page Number: | 141 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1999 |
| Journal: | Agricultural Systems |
| Authors: | Lara P., Stancu-Minasian I. |
| Keywords: | decision theory: multiple criteria, programming: fractional, programming: multiple criteria |
Fractional programming is presented as a tool for studying the sustainability of agricultural systems. The essentials of the technique in both the single and the multi-objective cases are outlined. The lack of friendly algorithms embedded in programming packages to solve the models is a shortcoming for the extensive use of a technique well adapted to represent many problems in economics. Two procedures for avoiding this shortcoming in the multiple objective case are discussed.