Search Results - subject:"Program planning"

Improved Program Planning Approaches Generates Large Benefits in High Risk Crop Farming

Musshoff, Oliver; Hirschauer, Norbert - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

This paper examines whether there is room for the improvement of farm program decisions through the incorporation of mathematical optimization in the practical planning process. Probing the potential for improvement, we investigate the cases of four German cash crop farms over the last six...

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The use of evidence-based outcomes in systems and organizations providing services and supports to persons with intellectual disability

Loon, Jos H.M. van; Bonham, Gordon S.; Peterson, Dale D.; … - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 36 (2013) 1, pp. 80-87

This article describes how evidence-based outcomes (EBOs) can be used to improve clinical, managerial, and policy decisions. As a component of evidence-based practices, EBOs are defined as measures obtained from the assessment of quality of life-related indicators that are based on a...

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Instructions for the programming of the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) and the Development Cooperation Insturment (DCI) - 2014 - 2020

Europäischer Auswärtiger Dienst; Europäische … - 2012

This document contains the detailed instructions and guidance for the EEAS, DEVCO services and EU Delegations for the programming of the EU's bilateral development cooperation with partner countries and regions in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) under the 11th European Development...

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Program planning as a tool for effective implementation of the government development programs

Teplitskaya, Alina A. - In: Journal of Applied Management and Investments 1 (2012) 2, pp. 271-278

The article highlights a range of problems associated with the use of program planning for the effective implementation … analyzis of the main trends and benefits of using this program planning. …

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Organizational Power and Politics: More Than Meets the Eye in Program Planning

Shaver, Susan - 2003

effects of organizational power and politics on program planning and how planning, with its inherent power and politics (see … emerged from the findings include: (a) multiple influences affecting program planning are not limited to companies practicing … primarily a process of facilitation which ignores additional, strategic elements of program planning (such as needs assessment …

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Region Level Evaluation Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) : Final Report ; Volume I: Main Report

Busacker, Dietrich (contributor) - ECO Consult - 2011

This evaluation covers the strategies of the European Union (EU) for co-operation with the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) and their implementation 1999–2009, including the intended effects under the current programming cycle 2008-2013, in relation to the territorial Single...

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Portfolio effects and the willingness to pay for weather insurances

Musshoff, Oliver; Hirschauer, Norbert; Odening, Martin - In: Agricultural Finance Review 68 (2008) 1, pp. 83-97

Since the mid‐1990s, agricultural economists have discussed the relevance of index‐based insurances, also called “weather derivatives”, as hedging instruments for volumetric risks in agriculture. Motivated by the question of how weather derivatives should be priced for agricultural...

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Portfolio effects and the willingness to pay for weather insurances

Musshoff, Oliver; Hirschauer, Norbert; Odening, Martin - In: Agricultural Finance Review 68 (2008) September, pp. 83-97

Since the mid-1990s, agricultural economists have discussed the relevance of index-based insurances, also called “weather derivatives”, as hedging instruments for volumetric risks in agriculture. Motivated by the question of how weather derivatives should be priced for agricultural firms,...

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Improved program planning with formal models? The case of high risk crop farming in Northeast Germany

Mußhoff, Oliver; Hirschauer, Norbert - In: Central European Journal of Operations Research 15 (2007) 2, pp. 127-141

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Conceptualizing integrative, farmer participatory research for sustainable agriculture: From opportunities to impact

Fliert, Elske van de; Braun, Ann - In: Agriculture and Human Values 19 (2002) 1, pp. 25-38

This paper offers a conceptualmodel for participatory research projects thataim to improve the sustainability ofagriculture and natural resource management.The purpose of the model is to provide asystematic framework that can guide the designof participatory research projects, theiranalysis, and...

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