What are the root causes?

How does the problem and the solution impact on every other aspect of farm management and how do other activities impact on the problem?

The whole system is more than just the sum of the component parts. You cannot ride the parts of the bicycle, they have to be carefully assembled in a precise manner before they work as a bicycle should. If you assemble the bike and leave out some parts it may still work, but not as well as it could. Seeing the whole bicycle or the whole system is a particular skill that needs to be learned. Some of this can be gleaned from a manual but some is really never learned until you have ridden the bicycle. Yet more will never be learnt until you have put the bicycle together and taken it apart a few times. In other words practice is just as important as theory in farming as it is in riding or fixing a bicycle.