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 …

After decades of neglect, agricultural mechanisation is back on the development agenda in
Africa. Taking the mechanisation efforts of Ghana as an example, this paper analyses the …

A renewed focus on agriculture's potential contribution to economic transformation in Africa
has resulted in increased attention paid to agricultural mechanization. African agriculture still …

Use of mechanization in African agriculture has returned strongly to the development
agenda, particularly following the recent high food prices crisis. Many developing country …

Sustainable agricultural intensification requires the use of multiple agricultural technologies
in an integrated manner to enhance productivity while conserving the natural resource base …

This paper applies an integrated methodology which is constituted of the following:(i) the
Emergy-Data Envelopment Analysis (EM-DEA),(ii) environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis …

Central to food security interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa stands the value chain
approach. The underlying idea is that connecting farmers to input and output markets and …

Simple Summary Until recently, the important contributions donkeys make to the daily lives
of millions of people around the world have been overlooked. Global donkey populations …

Farm mechanization promises to help raise labor productivity and reduce the heavy toil of
farming on the world's millions of smallholder farms, hence contributing to socioeconomic …

Increased demand for the supply of donkey hides for use in the Traditional Chinese
Medicine e'jiao, is leading to a re-appraisal of donkeys' contributions to livelihoods across …