[HTML][HTML] Agricultural mechanization in Africa: Myths, realities and an emerging research agenda

T Daum, R Birner - Global food security, 2020 - Elsevier
Across Africa, governments, development practitioners and private companies have
rediscovered agricultural mechanization as a top priority. In the literature, however …

Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review

T Daum - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2023 - Springer
There is an urgent need for agri-food system transformation to achieve global sustainability
goals. Innovations can play a key role in this transformation but often come with both …

The rapid rise of agricultural mechanization in Myanmar

B Belton, MT Win, X Zhang, M Filipski - Food Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in
agricultural development. This literature has given rise to debates over the design of …

[HTML][HTML] Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa

M Sheahan, CB Barrett - Food policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to …

[图书][B] Sustainable diets: how ecological nutrition can transform consumption and the food system

P Mason, T Lang - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the
ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet's impact on public health and the …

Scaling agricultural mechanization services in smallholder farming systems: Case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America

J Van Loon, L Woltering, TJ Krupnik, F Baudron… - Agricultural systems, 2020 - Elsevier
There is great untapped potential for farm mechanization to support rural development
initiatives in low-and middle-income countries. As technology transfer of large machinery …

Understanding the agricultural input landscape in sub-Saharan Africa: Recent plot, household, and community-level evidence

M Sheahan, CB Barrett, MB Sheahan - World Bank Policy …, 2014 - papers.ssrn.com
Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanization in Ghana: Emerging demand, and the search for alternative supply models

X Diao, F Cossar, N Houssou, S Kolavalli - Food Policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Influential studies in the 1980s and early 1990s drew on the Boserup–Ruthenberg theories
of farming systems evolution to argue that African countries were not yet ready for …

Re-examining appropriate mechanization in Eastern and Southern Africa: two-wheel tractors, conservation agriculture, and private sector involvement

F Baudron, B Sims, S Justice, DG Kahan, R Rose… - Food Security, 2015 - Springer
The need for sustainable intensification in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) is widely
recognized as a requirement to achieve food security with minimum negative social and …

[图书][B] Food, globalization and sustainability

P Oosterveer, DA Sonnenfeld - 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food
production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This …