DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
To support effective agricultural and environmental decision making and planning, AAIC designs and implements information systems. The type of data needed for the decision making process varies according to the requirements of each project and forms a basic set of objectives for information system development. While the specific decisions and data are project dependent, the following list represents some typical data requirements and program objectives:

• crop characteristics planted area, harvested area, inputs, yields total production
  
• tree crops number of trees, area planted, yield per tree
  
• livestock total number of animals, breakdown by ages, cattle on feed, birds for laying
  
• farm production expenditures costs of inputs, labor, fertilizer, seed etc.
  
• socio-economic data health, food consumption, income, labor, gender data, nutrition
  
• demographic data
  
• environmental indicators water quality, wildlife habitat, timber volume, range carrying capacity, soil capacity
  
• integration of environmental, and socioeconomic data with agricultural production data.
  
• data summary levels national, state, and project level data