This paper presents ideas for a new generation of agricultural system models that could meet the needs of a growing community of end-users exemplified by a set of Use Cases. We envision new data, models and knowledge products that could accelerate the innovation process that is needed to achieve the goal of achieving sustainable local, regional and global food security. We identify desirable features for models, and describe some of the potential advances that we envisage for model components and their integration. We propose an implementation strategy that would link a “pre-competitive” space for model development to a “competitive space” for knowledge product development and through private-public partnerships for new data infrastructure. Specific model improvements would be based on further testing and evaluation of existing models, the development and testing of modular model components and integration, and linkages of model integration platforms to new data management and visualization tools.

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迈向新一代农业系统数据、模型和知识产品：设计和改进


本文提出了新一代农业系统模型的想法，这些模型可以满足不断增长的最终用户社区的需求，并以一组用例为例。我们设想新的数据、模型和知识产品可以加速实现可持续地方、区域和全球粮食安全目标所需的创新进程。我们确定了模型所需的功能，并描述了我们为模型组件及其集成设想的一些潜在进步。我们提出了一项实施战略，将模型开发的“竞争前”空间与知识产品开发的“竞争空间”联系起来，并通过新数据基础设施的公私合作伙伴关系。具体的模型改进将基于对现有模型的进一步测试和评估、模块化模型组件和集成的开发和测试，以及模型集成平台与新数据管理和可视化工具的链接。