Agriculture market information services (AMIS) in the least developed countries (LDCs): Nature, scopes, and challenges

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6228 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 109-120

  Islam, M Sirajul ^a   Grönlund, Ake ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agricultural market information systems; AMIS; ICT4D; IS Project Evaluation Matrix (IS PEM); LDCs; Rural Development

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKETS; AMIS; ICT4D; LDCS; PROJECT EVALUATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURE; COMMERCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; RURAL AREAS; DIGITAL STORAGE;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; COMMERCE;

EID: 78049337459     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14799-9_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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