SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Van Asseldonk, Marcel A.P.M.; Huirne, Ruud B.M.; Dijkhuizen, Aalt A.; Tomaszewski, Michael A.; Gelb, Ehud M..

Effects of a number of information technology applications were quantified empirically which were implemented on Dutch and Israeli dairy farms. Data comprised annual farm performances from 1987 to 1996, and included both adopters and nonadopters as well as farm results before and after adoption. Significant effects were estimated, making a differentiation between the different technologies.

Sistema para auxiliar o manejo de rebanhos leiteiros e a tomada de decisões.

Palavras-chave: Information technology; Panel analysis; Dairy farming; Livestock Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 1998

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20993

OLIVEIRA, S. R. de M.; COSTA, C. N.; SABADINI, C. C..

Efeitos da globalização e da era da informação. Manejo dos rebanhos e registros de desempenho. Programas de seleção e gerência da informação. Proleite - Sistema da acompanhamento e avaliação de rebanhos leiteiros.

Tipo: Comunicado Técnico (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Proleite; Manejo de rebanho; Herd management; Milk recording.; Controle Leiteiro; Tecnologia da Informação.; Information technology.

Ano: 1999

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/7356

MEASURING STRATEGIC INTENT IN THE SOUTH TEXAS FOOD MARKETING INDUSTRY

A MODEL OF INFORMATION AND I.T. ADOPTION IN FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS

McBryde, Gary L..

Binomial and multinomial logit analysis is applied to data collected from questionnaires to measure strategic intent in the food marketing industry. Questions were framed based on data from the U.S. Department of Commerce's "County Business Patterns" reports and from best-practice studies. Question topics were placed into a competitive strategy framework following the 1998 work of Porter. Results indicate a strategic focus on outbound logistics and market pricing at the direct value level. Indirect activities focus on human capacity and firm infrastructure, particularly expanding internationally. Firms are adopting information technologies as a competitive strategy, and are doing so as part of a combined strategy to develop human assets.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Food marketing; Industrial organization; Information technology; Strategy; Marketing.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14658

Mohtadi, Hamid; Kinsey, Jean D..

Evidence from the Food Supply chain suggests that food retailers often exhibit a reluctance to share information with their suppliers even when this benefits both parties. For example, inventory coordination and reduced costs may be realized by adopting appropriate supply chain management technologies such as cooperative planning, forecasting, and replenishment. This behavior is explained by viewing information as a strategic asset and modeling information exchange and the corresponding adoption of information technologies and analysis as a strategic game, i.e., an economic model where food retailers and their suppliers operate with uncertainty. The game is based on stylized facts from the food industry. Some key results from the game model are: (a) under...

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Information technology; Supply chain; IT strategy; Food industry; Industrial Organization; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14299

Projecting Productivity Growth: Lessons from the U.S. Growth Resurgence

Jorgenson, Dale W.; Ho, Mun S.; Stiroh, Kevin J..

This paper analyzes the sources of U.S. labor productivity growth in the post-1995 period and presents projections for both output and labor productivity growth for the next decade. Despite the recent downward revisions to U.S. GDP and software investment, we show that information technology (IT) played a substantial role in the U.S. productivity revival. We then outline a methodology for projecting trend output and productivity growth. Our base-case projection puts the rate of trend productivity growth at 2.21% per year over the next decade with a range of 1.33 - 2.92%, reflecting fundamental uncertainties about the rate of technological progress in IT-production and investment patterns. Our central projection is only slightly below the average growth...

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Productivity; Information technology; Productivity Analysis; O4.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10613

Manual de usuário do fórum eletrônico da Embrapa Cerrados.

A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential Role of Information and Communication Technology in Support of Poverty Alleviation Policies for Rural Populations--AGRI-ICT Project Report

KINPARA, D. I..

ABSTRACT: This paper is an user's manual for the phpBB2, a bulletin board package (BBS) developed by the phpBB Group. It's an Open Source software chosen, experimentally, as a knowledge management tool to improve research and development activities at Embrapa Cerrados, a branch of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation. An small group of researchers were trained on this software to manage information flow between them. This manual was written as a quick reference to support training, emphasizing four main topics: description of what is a BBS, the advantages of adopt is and how the phpBB2 is designed; facility to become a registered member of the BBS and how to enroll the thematic groups; steps for messages reading and posting into the forums; and...

Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Fórum de discussão; Conhecimento; Informação; Knowledge management; Bulletin Board System.; Administração; Gestão do Conhecimento; Tecnologia da Informação.; Information technology; Knowledge.; Information.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/569092

Coordenação do sistema da carne bovina no Reino Unido: implicações da rastreabilidade e da tecnologia de informação

Bourgeois, Robin.

This working paper summarizes the results of a structured collective exercise where participants first presented their country reports and experience. A cross-country comparison was then conducted, item by item in order to identify common and specific problems. A brainstorming approach enabled to discuss possible solutions and strategies to be further tailored for each country. Finally, in a follow up step these strategies were synthesized into a more comprehensive framework intended to provide basic guidelines for other Asian and Pacific countries in the field of ICT to support decision-making for poverty alleviation in rural areas where poor populations rely on the CGPRT sector.

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: Information technology; Information services; Training programmes; Food Security and Poverty; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/32660

Machado, Rosa Teresa Moreira; Zylbersztajn, Decio.

This paper discusses the traceability concept in the food business. Based on the transaction costs economics, it describes the adoption of traceability mechanisms in the UK beef market and examines the effects on the governance mechanisms in the production and distribution chain. The basic hypothesis is that, in the absence of information technology (IT), strictly coordinated mechanisms will occur. As the use of IT spreads, a decrease in information asymmetry and, consequently, more flexible governance structures may be observed.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Information asymmetry; Information technology; Electronic identification; Beef chain coordination..

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43672

Companies and Regulators in Emissions Trading Programs

Structure and Transformations of the Environmental Protection System in West Pomerania Region

Kruger, Joseph.

Much has been written about the economic and environmental performance of U.S. emissions trading programs for "acid rain" (sulfur dioxide) and nitrogen oxides. Less explored have been the unique roles and interactions of environmental regulators and the companies they regulate. I first examine how these roles change the way that regulators and companies operate within their own organizations and with each other. Next, I use examples from U.S. trading programs to illustrate the design and administrative features that allow program administrators and industry to best fulfill their respective roles. Finally, I examine briefly whether these features are present in the EU Emissions Trading System and determine the implications for its effectiveness.

Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper

Palavras-chave: Emissions trading; Climate change; Environmental management; Information technology; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10489

Siemianowski, Liwiusz.

The environmental protection system of West-Pomerania Region (North-western Voivodeship of Poland) is presented. Especially focused on water resources management and protection. The features of strategy of Voivodship development were specified. The aims of strategy are intented to reach improvement the level of life quality, economy standards and approaching the "philosophy" of sustainable development with engaged institutons were specified. The importance of information technology (IT) solutions for assessments of environment condition and reporting were emphasised. The examples of graphical charts, maps and assessments of water quality of Odra river estuary and selected environment components in West-Pomerania region attached.

Sítio da Rede Regional de Agroecologia Mantiqueira-Mogiana: versão 1.0: manual do usuário.

Palavras-chave: Water quality; Odra estuary; West-Pomernia region; Information technology; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24524

An Outlook for the Biofuels Industry in the Southern United States

VENDRUSCULO, L. G.; CUNHA, L. M. S.; OLIVEIRA, C. M. de; DIAS, C. B.; FARIA, E. de O..

Requisitos de hardware e software para acesso ao Sítio da Rede. Estrutura do Sistema. Composição do Sítio da Rede Regional de Agroecologia Mantiqueira-Mogiana. Página inicial. Agenda. Notícias. Fórum. Parceiros. Artigos. Álbum de fotos. Links interessados. Perguntas e respostas.

Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Rede Regional Agroecologia; Organização da informação; Sítio da Rede Regional de Agroecologia; Information; Information technology.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/8139

Crooks, Anthony C.; Dunn, John R..

Two seemingly unrelated topics are discussed- an outlook for biofuels in the southern United States, along with an overview of the important role that information technology is playing in the fuel ethanol industry. The outlook discussion is limited to issues involving the two principal biofuels, fuel ethanol and biodiesel, and their respective feed stocks, corn and soybean oil. The two topics are linked with a description of how information technology (IT) has enabled the development of the fuel ethanol franchise and a discussion of how IT is changing the very nature of biofuel operations.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Biodiesel; Biofuels; Fuel ethanol; Fuel ethanol franchise; Information technology; IT; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; O14; O31; Q12; Q13; Q16.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43771

Manual prático: dicas para navegação na Catir.

COSTA, A. M.; TOMÉ JÚNIOR, J. B..

bitstream/CPAC-2010/28923/1/doc-206.pdf

Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)

Ano: 2007

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/572259

Major Forces and Factors Shaping Global Markets: The Emerging Agricultural World

An Evaluation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Practices among Agribusiness Firms

Brookins, Carole L..

The world is producing greater opportunity for more people than ever before in the history of mankind. The global agri-food system is dynamic, not static. In order to understand the future trends and potentials for utilizing and improving our agri-food system, it is critical to focus on forces that will improve both productivity and policy to meet the demands of the ever-changing global market. This paper identifies five major trends that will impact the global economy and create structural change in commodity markets.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Biotechnology; Energy; Environment; Farm policy; Food safety; Information technology; Infrastructure gaps; Trade logistics; Agribusiness; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/62280

Torres, Antonio, Jr.; Akridge, Jay T.; Gray, Allan W.; Boehlje, Michael; Widdows, Richard.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has received much attention in the business press as a management process to enhance firm performance. This research highlights differences between groups of respondents who believe their firm's CRM program is performing at a high level, as compared to those not satisfied with the performance of their CRM initiative. Cluster analysis was used to develop a taxonomy of respondents based on their perceived CRM performance. The resulting clusters are then profiled on both demographic variables as well as a core set of activities/behaviors to better understand key differences in the CRM programs of agribusinesses.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Customer relationship management (CRM); Marketing; Strategy; Information technology; Cluster analysis.; Agribusiness.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8169

A AGROINFORMÁTICA EM EMPRESAS RURAIS: ALGUMAS TENDÊNCIAS

Cocaro, Henri; Jesus, Jose Carlos dos Santos.

A exemplo do que ocorreu no setor urbano, as novas tecnologias da informação aplicadas a agricultura integram-se a rapidamente. Em função disso, nesse artigo foram apresentadas e discutidas algumas tendências da agroinformática focando-se a utilização dos sistemas de informações gerenciais. Como considerações finais percebe-se que estes sistemas irão permear ainda mais as tecnologias da informação através de aplicações em: pacotes de software, ERP agropecuário, rastreabilidade de produtos de origem animal e vegetal, informações climáticas, redes (internet, portais e serviços web); cooperativas, assistência técnica e extensão rural, agricultura de precisão, zootecnia de precisão, e no Ensino a Distância. Embora existam ainda limitações, principalmente por...

OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING (OO) IN INDIA’S ITES: HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS IN DATA PROTECTION?

Palavras-chave: Software agrícola; Tecnologia da informação; Sistemas de informações gerenciais; Agricultural software; Information technology; Management information systems; Farm Management.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/102898

CASOS SOBRE A RASTREABILIDADE BOVINA EM EMPRESAS RURAIS INFORMATIZADAS: IMPACTOS GERENCIAIS

Bharti, Nalin.

In the last few years India has become one of the leading offshore outsourcing (OO) centers in the area of ITES. This paper deals with the main problem of data protection in offshore outsourcing centers with special emphasis on the steps by the government of India to enable India’s great business.

Tipo: Book

Palavras-chave: Information technology; Data protection low; Market changes of information; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Risk and Uncertainty.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43323

Cocaro, Henri; Jesus, Jose Carlos dos Santos.

O presente trabalho foi realizado em quatro empresas rurais informatizadas que aderiram ao programa de rastreabilidade bovina brasileiro e teve como objetivo identificar quais mudanças gerenciais ocorreram nessas empresas. Após utilizar a metodologia de estudo de casos comparativo concluiu-se que a adesão à rastreabilidade provocou o surgimento de novos controles como o arquivamento do Documento de Identificação Animal, a documentação da compra, a utilização e a saída de insumos (nutricionais e sanitários), como também a documentação das movimentações dos animais. A rastreabilidade mudou o enfoque da comercialização para todas as empresas pesquisadas porque permitiu a elas penetrar ou manterem-se em um mercado ao qual antes tinham pouco ou nenhum...

Manual de gestão de conteúdo do website do Projeto Fontes Alternativas Potenciais de Matérias-primas para Produção de Agroenergia.

Palavras-chave: Sistemas de informações gerenciais; Impactos no gerenciamento; Tecnologias de informação; Rastreabilidade bovina; Management information systems; Management impacts; Information technology; Bovine traceability; Agribusiness; Livestock Production/Industries.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/106089

DUARTE, D. H. de O.; SILVA, O. D. D. da; BARIONI, L. G..

Com os avanços tecnológicos, a necessidade de buscar informações de maneira mais rápida se torna cada vez maior. Atualmente, a internet é uma grande aliada para se conseguir informações sobre diversos assuntos, pois o alcance ao público está cada vez maior – permite acesso 365 dias por ano, 24 horas por dia –, tornando-se um dos instrumentos de publicidade mais efi cientes que existem, servindo de apoio ou veículo principal de campanhas de meios de comunicação, tais como, rádio, televisão, jornal, placas, folhetos. Seu custo/benefício é excelente se comparado a qualquer outro meio de divulgação. O Plone é uma ferramenta livre, que traz grande facilidade para a atualização de site. Trata-se de um gerenciador de conteúdo que permite a inserção das...

Tipo: Documentos (INFOTECA-E)

Palavras-chave: Gestão do conteúdo; Gestão da informação; Website; Management of content; Management of information; Tecnologia da informação; Information technology.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://www.infoteca.cnptia.embrapa.br/infoteca/handle/doc/661907

Stimulation of innovations: case of the Latvian IT cluster