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Multiple Criteria Analysis for Agricultural Decisions

Romero, C.; Rehman, T.

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Contentsvii
  • Prefacexi
  • Acknowledgementsxiii
  • Part one: Multiple criteria in agricultural decisions1
  • Chapter 1. Main features of the multiple criteria decision-making paradigm3
  • Criticism of the traditional paradigm for decision-making3
  • Economic versus technological decisions4
  • Multiple objectives and goals in agricultural economics7
  • Historical origins of the MCDM paradigm8
  • Plan of the book10
  • Suggestions for further reading14
  • Chapter 2. Some basic concepts15
  • Attributes, objectives and goals15
  • Distinction between goals and constraints16
  • Pareto optimality17
  • Trade-offs between decision-making criteria18
  • A first approximation of the main MCDM approaches19
  • Suggestions for further reading20
  • Part two: Multiple criteria decision-making techniques21
  • Chapter 3. Goal programming23
  • Introductory example for handling multiple criteria in a farm planning model23
  • The role of deviational variables in goal programming26
  • Lexicographic goal programming27
  • Sensitivity analysis in LGP30
  • The graphical method for solving an LGP problem31
  • The sequential linear method for LGP33
  • A brief comment on other LGP algorithms36
  • Weighted goal programming37
  • A critical assessment of goal programming38
  • Some extensions of goal programming41
  • Suggestions for further reading45
  • Chapter 4. Multiobjective programming47
  • An approximation of the multiobjective programming problem47
  • The pay-off matrix in MOP51
  • The constraint method52
  • The weighting method54
  • The noninferior set estimation method (NISE)55
  • Multigoal programming58
  • Some issues related to the use of MOP techniques59
  • Suggestions for further reading60
  • Chapter 5. Compromise programming63
  • An intuitive treatment of the concept of distance measures63
  • A discrete approximation of the best-compromise solution66
  • Compromise programming – a continuous setting68
  • The method of the displaced ideal71
  • Pros and cons of GP, MOP and CP74
  • Relationships between different MCDM approaches75
  • Suggestions for further reading78
  • Chapter 6. The interactive multiple criteria decision-making approach79
  • Structure of an interactive MCDM process80
  • The STEM method81
  • The Zionts and Wallenius method88
  • Interactive multiple goal programming92
  • An assessment of interactive MCDM approaches97
  • Suggestions for further reading100
  • Chapter 7. Risk and uncertainty and the multiple criteria decision-making techniques103
  • Risk programming techniques in agricultural planning within an MCDM framework103
  • Compromise-risk programming108
  • Game theory models and the MCDM framework110
  • Games with multiple goals and goal programming113
  • Compromise games116
  • Suggestions for further reading118
  • Part three: Case studies121
  • Chapter 8. A compromise programming model for the agrarian reform programme in Andalusia, Spain123
  • Background124
  • Trade-off curves for seasonal labour, employment and gross margin126
  • Compromise sets129
  • An approximation of the efficient set in a three-dimensional objectives space132
  • Concluding comments133
  • Chapter 9. Livestock ration formulation and multiple criteria decision-making techniques135
  • A livestock ration formulation example137
  • Ration formulation as a WGP problem138
  • Ration formulation as an LGP problem142
  • Ration formulation as an MOP problem146
  • Chapter 10. Livestock ration formulation via goal programming with penalty functions149
  • Penalty functions in diet formulation149
  • Diet formulation as a WGP model with penalty functions152
  • Diet formulation as an LGP model with penalty functions157
  • An assessment160
  • Chapter 11. Optimum fertiliser use via goal programming with penalty functions163
  • References169
  • Index185
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780444503435
  • ISBN-13 9780080537085
  • Author Romero, C.; Rehman, T.
  • Edition 2nd
  • Category Technology & Engineering
  • Subject General

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This book presents the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm for modelling agricultural decision-making in three parts. The first part, comprising two chapters, is philosophical in nature and deals with the concepts that define the underlying structure of the MCDM paradigm. The second part is the largest part consisting of five chapters, each of which presents the logic of a specific MCDM technique, and demonstrates how it can be used to model a particular decision problem. In the final part, some selected applications of the MCDM techniques to agricultural problems are presented and thus reinforce the development of an understanding of the MCDM paradigm.



The book has been designed for use at different levels: as a textbook for final year undergraduate and postgraduate courses in modelling for decision-making; as a manual for researchers and practising modellers; and, as general reference on the application of MCDM techniques. Readers with basic appreciation of algebra and linear programming can easily follow the contents of this book.