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The ILCA/NLPU on-farm alley farming project: Considerations on data collection and evaluation by Atta-Krah, A.N.

“…Discusses the problems in data collection and analysis, soil variability, management variability, problems of labour estimation, land clearing & preparation, planting & management, tree prunning & utilization and monitoring & evaluation procedures.…”
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Uber-ising access to tractors for improved productivity in Kenya and Nigeria by Oliver, Jehiel, Lohento, Ken

“…African agri-tech company, Hello Tractor, is using an Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology to link smallholders directly with tractor owners for increased planting times and reduced labour costs. In 2019, the company signed a contract with CTA to further develop its technology and business model.…”
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Bean production and the constraints to production in the highlands areas of Uganda by Kisakye, J.

“…The major constraints to bean production in the highland areas include land degradation, crop diseases and pests, weeds, unavailability of labour, and poor marketing facilities. (AS)…”
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Conservation agriculture for rice-based intensive cropping by smallholders in the Eastern Gangetic Plain by Bell, Richard W., Haque, Md. Enamul, Jahiruddin, M., Rahman, Md. Moshiur, Begum, Mahfuza, Miah, M. A. Monayem, Islam, Md. Ariful, Hossen, Md. Anwar, Salahin, Nazmus, Zahan, Taslima, Hossain, Mohammad Mobarak, Alam, Md. Khairul, Mahmud, Mir Nurul Hasan

“…Moreover, VMP and CA adopting farms saved 34% of labour costs and lowered total cost by up to 10% for production of lentil, mustard, maize (Zea mays) and wheat. …”
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An assessment of gender sensitive adaptations options to climate change in smallholder areas of Zimbabwe, using climate analogue analysis and considering farmer perceptions by Musiyiwa K, Filho WL, Nyamangara, Justice, Harris D

“…At drier sites, gender issues include labour for production and processing of the small grains, against a background of male labour migration. …”
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Improving bean production and consumption in Zimbabwe baseline report by Katungi, Enid M., Mutua, Mercy M., Mutari, Bruce, Makotore, Walter, Kalemera, Sylvia Monica, Maereka, Enock Kuziwa, Zulu, Rodah M., Birachi, Eliud Abucheli, Chirwa, Rowland

“…However, use of irrigation is associated with increased demand for hired and family labour, with women likely to bear more burden of extra unpaid labour. …”
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Perspectives – Academic career in ecology: Effect of gender, caregiving labor, and the working environment by Lomáscolo, Silvia Beatriz, Sandoval Salinas, María Leonor, Novillo, Agustina, Fontanarrosa, Gabriela, Núñez Montellano, María Gabriela, Piquer-Rodríguez, María, Alvarez, Marisa, Aschero, Valeria, Chillo, María Verónica, Fanjul, María Elisa, Martínez Gálvez, Fernanda, Pero, Edgardo J.I., Rodríguez, Daniela, Schroeder, Natalia, Zarbá, Lucía

“…Scientists with caregiving responsibilities, often women, carry a heavy burden of unpaid labour, and therefore suffer downfalls in performance. …”
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Migration in the Name of the Money by Bisaso, Denis

“…Labour migration is a growing phenomenon around the globe, and it is rather self-evident that people move to achieve better life conditions or flee adverse circumstances. …”
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Interactions between livestock husbandry and cropping in a West African savanna by Powell, J.M., Waters-Bayer, Ann

“…Investigates the present integration of livestock and crop production; examines the influence of crop residues on animal nutrition and the use of cattle manure in cropping and regards these in the context of further socio-economic interactions between the two ethnic groups, including land sharing agreements, labour exchange, and exchange of animal and crop products.…”
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Avocados in Kenya: What’s holding back smallholder farmers by Amare, Mulubrhan

“…We then looked at the implications this has on their farming businesses. This included labour inputs – such as hired and family labour – farm yields, sales prices, and finally, incomes.…”
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Agriculture Education in Zimbabwe by Huyer, Sophia, Nyasimi, Mary

“…Globally, women make up 43% of the agricultural labour force, and in Zimbabwe they provide 70% of agricultural labour. …”
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Identification of factors that influence technical efficiency of food crop production in West Africa by Amaza, P., Bila, Y., Iheanacho, A.

“…Fertilizer and hired labour have positive effects on output and their coefficients are significant (p = 0.01). …”
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Making the next generation ACP agriculture work for women: Opening remarks by CTA s Director by Hailu, Michael

“…For example, in Cote d Ivoire, 68% of the labour in the cocoa sector come from women, but they only get 21% of the income. …”
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The Fulani of Abet: Research for development of agropastoralism in the West African Savannah by Waters-Bayer, Ann, Bayer, W.

“…Includes settlement and land use, farmer-interactions, cropping, fallow & crop residue grazing, hired labour, herd management, herd productivity, inovation design & testing, supplementary feeding, legume under sowing and fodder banks.…”
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Forage research in smallholder and pastoral production systems by McIntire, John M., Debrah, S.K.

“…Discusses the use of forage legumes in the contexts of seasonality of other feeds particularly natural pastures and crop residues, the seasonality in animal movements, the competitiveness for land and labour of forage legumes, and the complementarity of forage legumes with other feeds in smallholder as well as pastoral production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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LE MEILLEUR OUTIL EST-IL D'EN AVOIR AUCUN ? by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Aucun travail mécanique ne laisse stable la structure du sol - le labour mécanique ne peut que le détruire. Une nouvelle méthode de préparation du sol est nécessaire,...…”
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Tidsstudier i kalvuppfödning by Lilja Johansson, Marjo

“…The farmers studied the labour time they needed with their calves and registered 17 different parts during 14 days. …”

Comparisons of infiltration capacitites in different parklands and farming systems of semi-arid Burkina Faso by Hansson, Linnea

“…Dans le village de Bondokuy, les mesures d'infiltration ont été faites avant et après labour dans des parcelles avec ou sans apport de compost et avec labour annuel ou bi-annuel. …”

Maximizing benefit transfers to the poor: evidence from South African employment programmes by Haddad, Lawrence J., Adato, Michelle

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Pastoral production systems and land utilisation types by Leeuw, P.N. de

“…Describes West African transhumant pastoralism, briefly analysing major characteristics of this mode of production, reviews differences in land tenure & farm size, livestock holdings, labour intensity, income & level of technical knowledge of African pastoral & cropping systems, and assesses applicability & efficacy of FAO's land evaluation framework in covering the distinctive features of these production systems.…”
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