Although value-added agriculture has received significant support, there is no framework available for conceptualizing opportunities and selecting ventures. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the value-added business development process by providing a categorical definition of value-added business initiatives and how this definition helps define a broader opportunity consideration set for ...

Businesses that rely on a value-added network to provide information processing and communications services are only as secure as the network itself. The customer should understand the types of processing and control services provided by such vendors, and the potential exposures that use of these networks can entail. This article describes the control issues that must be addressed, the controls...

agriculture has always been considerd as one of the important sectors in domestic and international economy .based on the central bank statistics; agriculture’s share in the iranian gdp at the constant price of the year 1998 was 13 percent of the gdp in the year 2007. therefore, studies on the role of agriculture in an economy and its interactions with other economic sectors should be considere...

The rapid diffusion of mobile and wireless technologies is transforming agricultural development globally. In South Africa, rural e-government service delivery has been hampered by low Internet penetration. Mobile government offers a promising alternative to deliver public services to remote rural communities. In this regard, the author examines the potential of mobile and wireless technologies...

corruption defined as abuse of power by governmental officials for personal goals.in recent years, many articles about determinants of corruption have been written that introduced so many variables as determinants of corruption. these factors can be divided into two categories: economic and non-economic factors.in these article we examine the effect of economic activities combination on corrupt...

Limited research has previously probed the interplay between Korea’s food security, agricultural sector, and environmental ramifications. This study delves into asymmetric influence of security value-added on carbon dioxide emissions (an sustainability proxy) from 1970 to 2020, incorporating non-renewable energy consumption foreign direct investment. Employing a nonlinear auto-regressive distri...