Information techniques for irrigation systems: Selected proceedings of the Second International Network Meeting on Information Techniques for Irrigation Systems held in Lahore/Bahawalnagar, Pakistan, 5-8 December 1994

Irrigation management / Irrigation systems / Decision support tools / Decision making / Information systems / Computer techniques / Models / Water management / Malaysia / Pakistan / Sri Lanka

AN EVALUATION OF THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE NATIONAL FADAMA DEVELOPMENT PROJECT III IN BENUE STATE

Government over the years have embarked on programmes and projects to boost agriculture in Nigeria, yet most of these projects fold up once funds are not forth coming from donor agencies. The Planner of Fadama III project incorporated sustainability in its component to ensure continuity. The thesis evaluated the sustainability of the National Fadama Development Project III in Benue State via assessing the projects’ implementation, income, savings, efficiency of production and adoption of technology by Fadama III farmers. Data were collected during a survey through the use of a well-structured questionnaire administered to 556 Fadama III beneficiaries grouped into Fadama User Groups and Individual Crop Farmers. Logit regression analysis and the Stochastic Frontier analysis were used to analyze the data. The sustainability index was measured using the Sustainability Assessment of Farming and the Environment framework. The result indicated that even though Fadama III project was not fully implemented in Benue State, there was a significant increase in the average income of the beneficiaries from baseline income. Findings also show that average savings were below 10% for more than 70% of the beneficiaries. Estimates of the stochastic frontier production function analysis showed that Fadama III beneficiaries were not efficient in their productive activities. Finally, the sustainability index was below 50% for all beneficiaries, the indicators that contributed more to low sustainability were savings and economic efficiency. The study concluded that even though the Fadama III project was beneficial to most farmers in Benue State, it is not sustainable. It was recommended that there is need for Deposit Money Banks or Micro-finance Banks to be established in all the Local Government Areas and farmers encouraged to save. Also, the full implementation of project in subsequent Fadama project will go a long way in sustaining the gains of the Fadama project for Benue State and Nigeria at large

Advanced Graduate Certificate in Professional Science Administration

The certificate in Professional Science Administration consists of the 12 credits: 9 credits of “plus” coursework from the existing Professional Science Master’s track in Biology with an addition 3-credit elective chosen by advisement. The full PSM Master’s track has received approvals from both the SUNY program review office, and the NYSED, and recruitment of students for Fall 2010 has begun

Defining And Measuring Green FDI: An Exploratory Review Of Existing Work And Evidence

This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify investment policy restrictions to green FDI. It does so by reviewing the literature and existing work on the contributions of FDI to the environment; by providing a two-part definition of green FDI; and by discussing various assumptions necessary to estimate the magnitude of \u27green\u27 FDI

Case-based recommender systems for personalized finance advisory

Wealth Management is a business model operated by banks and brokers, that offers a broad range of investment services to individual clients to help them reach their investment objectives. Wealth management services include investment advisory, subscription of mandates, sales of financial products, collection of investment orders by clients. Due to the complexity of the tasks, which largely require a deep knowledge of the financial domain, a trend in the area is the exploitation of recommendation technologies to support financial advisors and to improve the effectiveness of the process. The talk presents a framework to support financial advisors in the task of providing clients with personalized investment strategies. The methodology is based on the exploitation of case-based reasoning and the introduction of a diversification technique. A prototype of the framework has been used to generate personalized portfolios, and its performance, evaluated against 1,172 real users, shows that the yield obtained by recommended portfolios overcomes that of portfolios proposed by human advisors in most experimental settings

National Curriculum, a Pathway to Excellence; Exposure Draft (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants), 1986, Jan. 31

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