| Article ID: | iaor20091125 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 96 |
| Issue: | 1/3 |
| Start Page Number: | 37 |
| End Page Number: | 51 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2008 |
| Journal: | Agricultural Systems |
| Authors: | Gerber Pierre J., Carsjens Gerrit J., Pak-uthai Thanee, Robinson Timothy P. |
| Keywords: | analytic hierarchy process, decision theory: multiple criteria |
Public policies are needed to guide livestock sector's changes along a path that is sustainable in economic, social and environmental terms. These policies should include multiple development objectives and be adapted to location-specific contexts. Policy makers need assistance in dealing with such complex decisions. Spatial information can be integrated in decision support tools to support policy making, and is becoming increasingly available in the developing world. Spatial information, however, has seldom been used in livestock sector policy formulation because policy makers generally do not have access to resources for spatial modelling. The objective of this paper is to bridge this gap by proposing an approach to consolidating and analysing spatial information in the context of limited modelling resources.