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Precision Agriculture in India- Challenges and Opportunities / Soma, Mahesh Kumar et all
Precision farming is the latest trends in the agriculture sector which makes use of information technology to integrate all the procedures of farming from analyzing the soil-moisture, weather forecasting, and the quality of seed to predicting the real-time of harvesting. Basically, it focuses on the important aspect of inter-field and intra-field v [...] ; 2019 -
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Big Data and AI Revolution in Precision Agriculture: Survey and Challenges / Bhat, Showkat Ahmad
Sustainable agricultural development is a signicant solution with fast population development through the use of information and communication (ICT) in precision agriculture, which produced new methods for making cultivation further productive, procient, well-regulated while preserving the climate. Big data (machine learning, deep learning, etc.) i [...] ; 2021 -
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A Review on UAV-Based Applications for Precision Agriculture / Tsouros, Dimosthenis C.
Emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) can provide significant potential in Smart Farming and Precision Agriculture applications, enabling the acquisition of real-time environmental data. IoT devices such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can be exploited in a variety of applications related to crops management, by capturing high s [...] ; 2019 -
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Higher Education Quality Assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa: status, challenges, opportunities, and promising practices / Materu, Peter
This report maps and assesses the status and practice of higher education quality assurance (QA) in Sub-Saharan Africa. It centers on quality assurance in degree-granting tertiary institutions, but also incorporates, where available, information on other types of tertiary education. A main finding is that structured national-level quality assurance [...]
The World Bank; 2007 - 80p. ; Ref.
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The Market for Water Rights in Chile: major issues / Brehm, Monica Rios
Many economists advocate the use of tradable water rights as the most efficient system for allocating scarce water resources among alternative economic uses. According to this view, a private market in tradable water rights would maximize the economic value of the resource; would help to reduce costly public infrastructure investment and would fost [...]
World Bank; 1995 - 31p.
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AgriFusion: An Architecture for IoT and Emerging Technologies Based on a Precision Agriculture Survey / Singh, Ritesh Kumar
Precision Agriculture (PA) is a management strategy that utilizes communication and information technology for farm management. It is a key to improve productivity by using the best agricultural practices and optimal usage of resources. Agriculture faces diverse challenges due to soil degradation, climate variation, and increasing costs [...] ; 2021 -
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Nutritional Status in Ghana and its Determinants / Alderman, Harold
This report presents data which indicate that levels of malnutrition in Ghana remain relatively high compared to other African countries. The nutritional status of children is nevertheless improved compared to a variety of data cover the period 1982-86. These anthropometric measures of nutritional status show a strong regional pattern, with malnutr [...]
WORLD BANK; 1990 - 36p., Réf.
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Women in the urban labor market of Africa: The case of Tanzania / Shields, Nwanganga
This study examines the structure and characteristics of the female urban labor force, the determinants of female employment and labor earnings and attempts to ascertain whether sex differences in labor market performance can be attributed to sex discrimination. Apart from the constraints arising out of the general economic situation in the country [...]
World Bank; 1980 - 135p., Append.
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Aggregating Governance Indicators / Kaufmann, Daniel
In recent years the growing interest of academics and policymakers in governance has been reflected in the proliferation of cross-country indices measuring various aspects of governance. The authors explain how a simple variant of an unobserved components model can be used to combine the information from these different sources into aggregate gover [...]
World Bank; 1999 - 39p., Ref.
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IoT-Based Smart Irrigation Systems: An Overview on the Recent Trends on Sensors and IoT Systems for Irrigation in Precision Agriculture / García, Laura et all
Water management is paramount in countries with water scarcity. This also aects agriculture, as a large amount of water is dedicated to that use. The possible consequences of global warming lead to the consideration of creating water adaptation measures to ensure the availability of water for food production and consumption [...] ; 2020 -
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Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks for Precision Agriculture: A Review / Jawad, Haider Mahmood
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used in agriculture to provide farmers with a large amount of information. Precision agriculture (PA) is a management strategy that employs information technology to improve quality and production. Utilizing wireless sensor technologies and management tools can lead to a highly effective, green agriculture [...] ; 2017 -
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E C Budget Support : Thumbs up or down? / Hauck, Volker
Budget support is a form of macro-economic financial assistance that is designed to prioritise the fight against poverty and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The European Commission (EC) is providing more and more budget support under the Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA), which structures the provision of assistance by [...]
ECDPM; 2005 - 23p; Ref.
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Land reform and farm restructuring in Ukraine / Lerman, Zvi
Under legislation adopted in 1992, Ukrainian law recongnizes private ownership of agricultural land, as well as collective and state ownership. Also in 1992, a program to transfer land from state ownership to collective and individual ownership was initiated on a large scale, along with procedures to restructure collective and state farms. The tran [...]
World Bank; 1994 - 101p.
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The impact of the quality of health care on children's nutrition and survival in Ghana / Lavy, Victor
It is critical, especially during periods of budget restraint, to identify the beneficiaries of social sector investments and the extent to which these investments influence the development process. This paper analyzes the effect of quality and accessibility of health services and other public infrastructure on the health of children and adults in [...]
WORLD BANK; 1995 - 45p., Bibliogr.
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Participatory design of digital innovation in agricultural research-for-development: insights from practice / Steinke, Jonathan
CONTEXT: Innovation based on information and communication technology (ICT) plays an increasingly important role in agricultural research-for-development efforts. It has been recognized, however, that the weak adoption and low impact of many ICT-for-agriculture (ICT4Ag) efforts are partly due to poor design. Often, design was driven more by technol [...] ; 2021 -
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Trade liberalization and the transition to a market economy / Havrylyshyn, Oleh
The focus of this paper is on the transition from a trade regime in a socialist economy to one based on a (more) liberal market economy. Thus, there is no need to detail the past and current nature of trade institutions, patterns and performance. However, the sorts of problems that a transition policy must address emanate from the initial condition [...]
World Bank; 1991 - 51p.
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Adoption of new farming technology: A case study of maize production in Western Kenya / ONGARO, W.A.
Kompendiet-källered; 1988 -
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Child health and the 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru / Paxson, Christina
The effect of economic crises on child health is a topic of great policy importance. The authors use data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to analyze the impact of the profound 1988-92 economic crisis in Peru on infant mortality and anthropometrics. They show that there was an increase in the infant mortality rate of about 2.5 percenta [...]
The World Bank; 2004 - 26p. ; Bib
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The economic surplus. A fundamental factor of a development policy / Bettelheim, Charles [IDEP/REPRODUCTION/311]
Many reasons justify the choice of the concept of "economio surplus" as a topic for a specific reflection. They are both practical and theoretical.From the practical point of view, every development policy necessarily aims at influencing the size and the use of the economic surplus, hence the importance of defining this concept and all those conn [...]
IDEP; 1972 - 47 p.
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