the study examines production efficiency of farmers under national fadama-ii project in oyo state nigeria. primary data were collected from two hundred and sixty-four farmers using multistage sampling technique. the analytical framework used for the study include: descriptive, infrastructure index, gross margin and stochastic frontier production function. average infrastructural index in the ar...

The Dutch Child Index is a nationwide information system (IS) designed to alert professionals about each other’s involvedness with at-risk children, enabling identification of individual at-risk children, improvement of multidisciplinary collaboration and timely interventions. In this paper, we study the infrastructural work and complexities engaged in making the collaborative system of the Chi...

Abstract Invisible and seemingly technical financial infrastructures have become the site of high geopolitics. Crucially, security sanctions are being leveraged through global messaging network SWIFT. This article offers term “infrastructural geopolitics” to draw attention ways in which hegemonic contestation fracturing play out payment infrastructures. Infrastructures not passive sites be used...

‘Infrastructural Unrest’ characterizes a growing nexus of knowledge, awareness, participative and activist practices that indicate how people are waking up from the contemporary logistical nightmare infrastructure global logistics. It is wake-up newly resonates with theories by provoking systems-level, decentralised field awareness action, revealing interconnect...

A growing ethnographic literature attends to maintenance and repair practices in the face of decay ruination. This article explores forms that become an integral part infrastructure maintenance. In Turkey’s Çoruh Basin, hydroelectric dam constructions lead a concern about landscape’s erosive character, which requires foresters’ watershed rehabilitation uplands protect dams against sediment accu...

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...