Everyone is agreed that one of the central components of achieving an „African Green Revolution‟ is to tackle the widespread soil fertility constraints in African agriculture. To this end, AGRA – the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa – has launched a major new „Soil Health‟ programme aimed at 4.1 million farmers across Africa, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committing $198 m...

Acceleration of progress in nutrition will require effective, large-scale nutrition-sensitive programmes that address key underlying determinants of nutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness of nutrition-specific interventions. We reviewed evidence of nutritional effects of programmes in four sectors--agriculture, social safety nets, early child development, and schooling. The need f...

Acceleration of progress in nutrition will require effective, large-scale nutrition-sensitive programmes that address key underlying determinants of nutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness of nutrition-specific interventions. We reviewed evidence of nutritional effects of programmes in four sectors—agriculture, social safety nets, early child development, and schooling. The need fo...

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 ...

Software architecture has the potential to significantly shift software development from dealing with fine grained (program level) constructs to a higher level emphasis. This position paper discusses some of the major computer science questions that require investigation to facilitate this shift. It focuses on three particular areas: semantics and languages, formal verification, and measurement...