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"...an ancient Greek word signifying the achievement of a steady progress towards an objective
through careful planning & the intelligent use of resources"

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The Agricultural Development Foundation operated between 1970 and 1983 as McNeill Associates. ADF was absorbed as a division of the Systemns Engineering Economics Lab in 2000.
Some examples of assignments

The activity areas below contain short descriptions of typical assignments undertaken by us.
Development economics
  • Assessment of viability of vegetable oil extraction systems, Maranhao, SUDENE, Brazil
  • Decision analysis and risk concerning small farmer credit, ADF, Hungary
  • Assessment of the Brazilian Biofuels programme, GTS
  • Review of EU pre-accession strategies for agricultural sector, Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary
  • Impact of information technology on the European Economy, Comission of the European Union
  • European Union marketing strategies for national trading companies, Interbras & Cobec, Brazil
  • Review of some 60 grain, meat & milk industries for privatization, Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary
  • Impact of educational deprivation on macro-economic development, ECRE, London
  • Establishment of land markets in trasition economies, ADF, UK
  • Re-organization plan for 12 sugar estates and factories, Ministry of Agriculture, Peru
  • Management of small farmer investment grant scheme, Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary


Systems engineering
  • Design & implementation of consignment management system with voice communications, ADF, UK
  • Design & implementation of global food chain traceability system, ADF, UK
  • Design & implementation of commodity exchanges, ADF, UK
  • Design & implementation of computer-assisted coffee inventory system, IBC, Brazil
  • Design and implementation of online farm planning system, AFA, Hungary
  • Design and implementation of online food chain traceability system, ADF, UK
  • Design and implementation of consignment management system, Parceline, UK















Projects

Evaluations, reviews and assessment of over 200 programs, projects, tenders and subcontracts.

These have involved project ranging from scales from micro-credits to national investment programs and international bank loans undertaken on behalf of funding agencies including European Commission and the World Bank.

Management of projects for crop inventory, economic development, business learning systems, communty economics and minority group inclusion, with special emphasis of the Roma of East & Central Europe.

Management of project funding proposals and requests for a total of in excess of £500 million.
























Online services
  • Private corporate voice networks
  • Online media scribing systems
  • Online expert dialogue systems
  • Document flow systems
  • Online production trial optimization systems
  • Online experimental trial monitoring systems
  • Online bar coding systems
  • Spam free and virus free mail networks
  • Agrotraceability service for food chain traceability
  • AgriComex international agricultural commodity exchange
  • AgroTrade agricultural procucement & sales exchange
  • AgroNet online farm planning system
  • Expert dialogue systems for land price estimations
  • Seel-Telesis® non-branded online services