Issue 50:
August 2009
Issue 50: Special 50th issue
Documents
This study presents a scheme for the development of a GIS-based decision support system (DSS) for real time water demand estimation in distributaries. The DSS dynamically links a field irrigation demand prediction model for the area irrigated b...
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This report is a review of irrigation technologies for smallholders in the context of improving rural livelihoods, especially in regard to the prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. The role of traditional technologies is evaluated and modern water...
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This report is a review of irrigation technologies for smallholders in the context of improving rural livelihoods, especially in regard to the prospects for sub-Saharan Africa. The role of traditional technologies is evaluated and modern water...
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People working in agribusiness use GIS software for precision farming, land management, business operations, and much more. GIS provides the means to spatially view variables that affect crop yields, erosion and drought risk, and business oppor...
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Although irrigation in Africa has the potential to boost agricultural productivities by at least 50 percent, food production on the continent is almost entirely rainfed. Many development organizations have recently proposed to significantly incr...
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ICT is one of the most effective means in upgrading of land and water management and increasing food production. Developing countries and users of surface irrigation are lagging behind the developed countries and pressurized irrigation operator...
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Software Industry Promotion Agency (Sipa), based in Thailand, is developing a prototype based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) to support agricultural cooperatives. The project will purchase about 500 RFID tags for the prototype, which...
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Some 3600 cooperative farms manage about fifty-five percent of Cuba’s cropland. They grow food for national consumption and for export, provide full-time jobs for around 300,000 cooperative members, and supply a variety of social benefits for th...
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Farmers’ organizations can play a key role in agricultural innovation, since they have the capacity to pool, aggregate and disseminate knowledge and information. Moreover, they are increasingly positioned in both service networks and supply cha...
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The main categories of agricultural co-operatives fall into mainstream activities of agricultural undertaking including supply of agricultural inputs, joint production and agricultural marketing. Input supply include the distribution of seeds a...
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