Fonsah. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract The paper uses a stochastic frontier analysis of production functions to estimate the level of technical efficiency in agriculture for a panel of 29 developing countries in Africa and Asia between 1994 a...

While detailed analysis of the productivity of many sectors of the Irish economy are not possible because of a lack of data, the quality and volume of data on agricultural outputs and inputs allows such an analysis. In this chapter, a picture of the productivity performance of the Irish agriculture sector based on various different measures is presented and compared with the performance of Irel...

Dr. Mohammad Hossein Jazirei was born in 1922 in Bandar-e-Anzali and finished high school there.In May 1944, he graduated in agriculture engineering and occupied the position of Lahijan forester in Forestry Department of Ministry of Agriculture in fall. In 1955, he moved to Belgium and was admitted by Agronomy Institute of Belgium; he achieved MS in Water and Forest field in 1957. After doing r...

communicating with people, whereas men were focused on the technical aspect. Overall, there are 22% of women working in the IT eld in Estonia, and the proportion of women is larger in those IT occupations which involve more communication. For instance, the proportion of women is 43% among consultants and trainers; 34% among digital media specialists; 33% among project and service managers; 32% ...

ARIADNE is a European foundation that aims to foster “Share and Reuse” of learning resources. To support this goal, ARIADNE has created an infrastructure for managing learning objects in an open and scalable way. This paper describes the technical approach behind our open, standards based infrastructure, how content providers can connect to it, and the value they can derive from doing so. As su...

*A contribution from the Estación Experimental Agricola en Tingo Maria, Peru, a technical agricultural service organization for the Oriente of Peru, operated jointly by the Dirección de Colonización y Asuntos Orientales, Ministry of Agriculture of Peru, and by the Ofläce of Foreign Agricultural Relations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. This study was made possible by funds provided through th...