The global development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has created a new agricultural development paradigm that promises to transform the performance of the agricultural sector and improve rural livelihoods in developing countries. Over the past five years, South Africa has witnessed a swift ICT-led transformation of its public service delivery with major innovations in key ...

The main aim of this paper is to propose a state of art wireless sensor technology in agriculture, which can show the path to the rural farming community to replace some of the traditional techniques. In this project, the sensor motes have several external sensors namely leaf wetness, soil moisture, soil pH, atmospheric pressure sensors attached to it. Based on the value of soil moisture sensor...

A generic risk matrix is presented for use identifying and assessing project risks quickly and cost effectively. It assists project managers with few resources to perform project risk analysis. The generic risk matrix (GRM) contains a broad set of risks that are categorized and ranked according to their potential impact and probability of occurrence. The matrix assists PMs in quickly identifyin...

Along with the growing up of the Chinese generalized agriculture, the agriculture products logistics demands are increasing quickly in quality and quantity. Oppositely, the service of agriculture products logistics is slowly. It is very essential to study the logistics service mode suited to the tendency of the agriculture products logistics demand. The paper analyzes the common characteristic ...

This paper focuses on a concrete, non-mainstream example of bringing ICTs to rural agricultural areas. In elaborating on this example of ‘ICT for Development’ (ICT4D), it tries to provide insights into the integration of the natural sciences, the technical communication sciences and the social sciences in a project called: Open Source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural Areas (OSCAR). The ...

This report contains the results of a 6-year project conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development on stream incision and meadow ecosystem degradation in the central Great Basin. The project included a coarse-scale assessment of 56 different meadows systems coupled wit...

This paper reports on a specific project, employing new technological capabilities to better transfer expert knowledge. The specific project considered for the paper is the World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH), a Multi Organization Enterprise promoting the use of soy and soy products in humanitarian and development aid around the world. VisIT, which stands for Visualization of Infor...