Ethiopia is at a critical crossroads with a burgeoning population, a severely depressed national economy, insufficient agricultural production, and a minimal number of developed energy sources. This study assesses how investment in and management of water resources, together with related policy reforms, may mitigate the negative effects of hydrologic variability on the performance and structure...

One of the risks recognized by relevant authorities is the risk of outsourcing ITS projects. The purpose of this study was to design and explain the pattern of determining the critical success factors in outsourcing large-scale ITS projects in the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development (Road Maintenance and Transportation Organization). This study was performed using qualitative method. The pa...

At present, China has more than 6000 agricultural website. But with the development of network technology, further perfect the logistics distribution technology and the consumer is the pursuit of personalized demand situation, agricultural e-commerce website will have great development space, through the investigation of related domestic website found that domestic agricultural e-commerce is st...

 Designing and implementing agro-ecosystem intervention decisions is a complex undertaking, outcomes are uncertain and risk of project failure and cost overruns are large.  Sub-optimal intervention decisions are resulting from failure to consider uncertainty, omission of important variables that are difficult to measure, and a lack of frameworks for combining diverse types of information.  W...

investing in research and development spending (r&d) affects total factor productivity (tfp).recently new theories of economic growth have emphasized the relationship between r&d and tfpand also identified a number of channels through which a country’s r&d affects tfp of its tradepartner. this study seeks to estimate the effect of agricultural r&d and education spending and some...

Although increasing population in Turkey agricultural lands have not been expanded, thus, agricultural lands should be used more effectively. Therefore, Land consolidation is the most important work, which has to be done. Land consolidation takes time to execute project because of large application area and extensive. Therefore, using computer is extremely significant to conclude the land conso...

the purpose of this paper is to design entrepreneurship model of agricultural extension in the context of agricultural sustainable development. in fact the purpose of this paper is to identify the prerequisite (the influential factors of entrepreneurship), process (development of entrepreneurial program in organization); context (extension perspective in the context of agricultural sustainable ...

The ultimate goal of an agriculture research system is on-time, correct and clear response to the problems and expectations of agriculture household and stakeholders. In this respect, though, due to variation and frequency of the problems and expectations and as well as many limitations such as financial deficit, short time and shortage in work force and equipments etc, the system cannot be tho...