1988 Agricultural Research, Southeast Kansas Branch Station

Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station

The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

The Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station

Agricultural Systems 26 (1988) 291-316

The Southeast Asian Universities Agroecosystem network (SUAN) has used five system properties to assess agroecosystem performance: productivity, stability, sustainability, equitability and autonomy. Assessing these properties can be useful for agricultural research and development, but the assessment is complicated by several factors. First is the multidimensional character of these properties,...