The Lean philosophy is increasingly being implemented, both in industry and the public sector. Examples of this include Produktionslyftet (The Production Leap) and Verksamhetslyftet (an educational project helping hospitals and municipalities in their work to implement lean principles in their organizations), two larger programmes that have been researched by academia. For more information abou...

The difficulty of sustaining ICT4D projects in developing nations is a formidable issue encountered by project managers. Addressing this issue is vital given reasons such as the opportunity cost of IT investment failure in developing-world contexts. This paper presents a study which explores the sustainability of ICT4D projects via a case study of a large-scale, nation-wide, government sector I...

A spatiotemporal analysis on the changes in the marsh landscape in the Honghe National Nature Reserve, a Ramsar reserve, and the surrounding farms in the core area of the Sanjiang Plain during the past 30 years was conducted by integrating field survey work with remote sensing techniques. The results indicated that intensified agricultural development had transformed a unique natural marsh land...

The CGIAR Independent Science & Partnership Council (ISPC) has complemented the work of the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), by providing fora for discussion between the CGIAR and partners on the challenge of identifying how agricultural research can contribute to improved human nutrition. In an era when the quantity of food produced globally is not t...

the purpose of this study was investigation of east azerbaijan researchers and extension agents’ view about the role of extension services on agricultural development. the methodology was descriptive-correlation which is carried out by survey method. in this study, the sample population was 335 people including all researchers and extension agents working in the agricultural sector. to assess t...

the purpose of this study was to analysis to influencing factors on the reducing inputs in participatory technology development (ptd) project of watershed honam in lorestan province. the research projects ptd, is one of the resilience livelihood projects from global challenge program for water and food (cp) to carry out central challenge link two categories is water operation and resilience liv...

Integrated supply chains are one of the most powerful competitive tools in today's globalizing business economy. For agricultural products, successful supply chain development projects reduce not only the transaction costs but also the institutional barriers that decouple individual links in traditional distribution channels. They allow participants to achieve higher levels of service and to ca...