Access to market information by smallholder chicken farmers is most important for involving in the chicken market. In chicken value chain the one with skills and well equipped more making profits. Most of the indigenous chicken producers are rural smallholder chicken farmers. Most of the rural farmers …

Mango (Mangifera indica Linn.) is an important fruit in Asia and the demand for high-quality mango is increasing all over the world. The mango sector is an important component of the Agriculture sector in Myanmar. It provides the country’s economy with export earning. Diamond Solitaire called Sein Talone …

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Ethiopian economy. However, the production of crops in the Northern Ethiopia especially Tigray Region is at subsistence level due to drought, erratic rainfall and poor soil fertility. Since cactus pear is a drought-resistant plant, it is considered as a lifesaver fruit …

A need to introduce indigenous chicken processing practices in the value chain was the topic of this case study. The case study was conducted in Singida Municipality, Singida region in central Tanzania. The visit was also done to Dodoma city, Dodoma region in central Tanzania to get experience on chicken …

In newsrooms journalists encounter numerous constraints accelerated by increasing technological and economic pressures. The complexity of the job and the need for (constant) innovation coupled with the rising call for transparency and accountability ask for journalists who “reflect-in-action”. Newsroom …

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of manipulating game constraints on match performance in youth field hockey. A total of 25 participants aged 10.6–14.6 years old played four different 25-min games where density (228m2 or 158m2 per player) and/or number of players (11 per side or …

In cognitive science, creative ideas are defined as original and feasible solutions in response to problems. A common proposal is that creative ideas are generated across dedicated cognitive pathways. Only after creative ideas have emerged, they can be enacted to solve the problem. We present an alternative …

Dit werk is gericht op 3-D lokalisatie van sensormotes in massale zwermen, uitsluitend gebaseerd op 1-D relatieve afstandsmetingen tussen naburige motes. We richten ons op toepassingen in afgelegen en moeilijk toegankelijke omgevingen zoals de exploratie en het in kaart brengen van de binnenkant van …

Reducing the use of pesticides by early visual detection of diseases in precision agriculture is important. Because of the color similarity between potato-plant diseases, narrow band hyper-spectral imaging is required. Payload constraints on unmanned aerial vehicles require reduc- tion of spectral bands. …

Sustainable consumption is interlinked with sustainable production. This chapter will introduce the closed-loop production, the circular economy, the steady state economy, and Cradle to Cradle (C2C) models of production. It will reflect on the key blockages to a meaningful sustainable production and …