《Interactive multiobjective agro-ecological land use planning：The Bungoma region in Kenya》.pdfVIP

European Journal of Operational Research 158 (2004) 194–217 /locate/dsw O.R. Applications Interactive multiobjective agro-ecological land use planning: The Bungoma region in Kenya a b,* € c Per J. Agrell , Antonie Stam , Gunther W. Fischer a Universite Catholique de Louvain, CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium b Department of Management, University of Missouri, College of Business, 418 Cornell Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA c International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Land Use Change Project, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria Received 13 July 2000; accepted 19 March 2003 Available online 27 August 2003 Abstract The development of a third world country requires a conscious balance between different planning and policy issues, such as population growth rate, gross national income, self-reliance and long-term sustainable ecological development. This paper reports on a cross-disciplinary project to design a decision support system (DSS) that aims to assist gov- ernment policy makers in planning the regional agricultural development of the Bungoma region in Kenya. The DSS is based on the agro-ecological zones (AEZ) model, a previously developed non-interactive optimization model that provides an agro-ecological and economic assessment of various types of land uses, including cash-crops, food pro- duction, grazing, forestation and farming. This work extends th