Simulating Farmer Adoption of Agricultural Best Management Practices in the Upper Medway Creek Subwatershed at Upper Thames River Watershed, Ontario

The main goal of this project is to investigate how agriculture and food production systems may change in the future, in response to risks and uncertainties, brought on by different climate stressors and socio-economic drivers. An Agent-based Model (ABM) framework was developed to serve as a proof of concept study conducted to assess the impacts of different socio-economic and environmental factors on farmers decision-making process of the adoption of Best Management Practices (BMP). The developed ABM will also help to model the dynamics of the coupled human-environmental system in affecting phosphorus transportation in agricultural watersheds using an ABM approach, coupled with a hydrological model. This data set is collected for the project titled Agricultural Water Futures in Canada: Stressors and Solutions is a Pillar 3 project under the Global Water Futures Program funded by Canada First Research Excellence Fund.