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African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a subsequent neglect of mechanization, both in practice and in academia. In...
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African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a subsequent neglect of mechanization, both in practice and in academia. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858019
mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual … negative effects on children were found. The study debunks some myths related to gender roles in African smallholder … agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003080
mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual … negative effects on children were found. The study debunks some myths related to gender roles in African smallholder … agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109799
that are characterized by three different levels of mechanization: hand tools, animal draught power and tractors. Detailed … farming periods, results are more mixed. Gender differences are noteworthy throughout, with men mostly having higher physical …
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that are characterized by three different levels of mechanization: hand tools, animal draught power and tractors. Detailed … farming periods, results are more mixed. Gender differences are noteworthy throughout, with men mostly having higher physical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058287
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
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Descriptive and logit analysis were employed to investigate the impact of social, economic and technical factors on decisions to adopt new agricultural technologies in the Ada and Selale districts of Ethiopia. Peasants follow sequential adoption of technologies. In both study areas, priority is...
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In this paper I present a new approach to rural-to-urban migration in developing countries. This approach sheds new light on the role of urban-to-rural remittances in bringing about technological change in the agricultural sector of these countries. At the core of the new approach is a utility...
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With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya … negative gender implications of farmer groups can be reduced or avoided when women are group members themselves. In the poorest …
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