Conservation Agriculture (CA) continues to gain relevance among small and medium-scale
farmers in African countries, including Zambia, in response to food insecurity and the …

This paper examines the state, drivers and, consequently, the impacts of agricultural
mechanization in eleven countries in Africa. Using representative multistage stratified …

While there is growing recognition of the positive role played by organic farming in the
reduction of the negative externalities due to conventional agriculture, there is uncertainty …

More and more questions are currently being raised as to what the farm equipment of the
future ought to be and how it should be designed to best meet contemporary challenges in …

Farm-level decisions affect the level of productivity and the character of smallholder
agriculture landscapes. Landscape crop diversity (LCD) results from farmer decisions and …

In the context of Africa's farm labor scarcity, the use of mechanization is crucial for
agricultural development. In Benin, technological advances, such as animal traction and …

In this chapter, we explore the effects of mechanized tillage among rice farmers in Tanzania.
We use two-year panel data to examine the expansion of the area under rice cultivation …

Bangladesh is experiencing the structural transformation of its economy with increasing
employment in the manufacturing sector, particularly the garment industry. At the same time …

The paper aims at analyzing the effect of institutional quality on labor productivity in the
agricultural sector. To meet this aim, a Gaussian log-linear model was applied to 773 …

Compared to other countries, the level of agricultural mechanization in Africa and South
Africa is relatively low. Among the factors that influence agricultural mechanization, after …