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Innovation packages and scaling readiness workshop for smallholder famers mechanization starter pack, Zimbabwe: An activity report by Ijudai Jasada, Md Abdul Matin, Thierfelder, Christian, Mhlanga, Blessing, Louw-Nora, Hanke, Faju, Rose, Shiela Chikulo

“…The pack is meticulously tailored to enhance land and labour productivity, improve timeliness of agricultural operations, reduce production cost, and eliminate human drudgery. …”
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Twenty-five years of Living Under Contract: Contract farming and agrarian change in the developing world by Vicol, Mark, Fold, Niels, Hambloch, Caroline, Narayanan, Sudha, Niño, Helena Pérez

“…Contract farming has extended the footprint of commodity production and integrated land and labour not otherwise captured in forms of direct production and marketing. 25 years after the publication of Living Under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa, a foundational collection edited by Peter Little and Michael Watts, it is necessary to take stock of the most prominent developments in the practice of contract farming and in the political economy literature studying it. …”
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Chinese investment in Africa: How much do we know? by Bräutigam, Deborah, Diao, Xinshen, McMillan, Margaret S., Silver, Jed

“…Many reports describe China’s engagement with Africa as “neo-imperialism” and “authoritarian capitalism”, exploiting natural resources and local labour while undermining democracy. A growing demand for natural resources in China is also credited with boosting growth across the continent, especially in Africa’s resource-rich countries. …”
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Evaluation of drill seeding patterns and nitrogen management strategies for wet and dry land rice by Ali, M. Akkas, Ladha, J.K., Rickman, J., Lales, J.S., Alam, M. Murshedul

“…Many Asian farmers are shifting from rice transplanting to direct seeding because the latter requires less labour, time, drudgery, and cultivation cost. Direct seeding is usually practiced in either wet or dry land preparation depending on water availability. …”
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Profit efficiency of layer production in Ghana by Yevu, Mawuli, Onumah, Edward Ebo

“…The results show that the costs of feed and labour are the most significant factors negatively affecting the profit levels of layer producers. …”
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Assessing genotype-by-environment interactions for maydis leaf blight disease in maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm and identification of stable donors for breeding resistant hybrid var... by Nisa, Wajhat Un, Sandhu, Surinder K., Kaur, Harleen, Nair, Sudha, Singh, Gagandeep

“…This approach optimizes the use of land, labour and resources in MLB resistance testing.…”
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Economic evaluation of smallholder subsistence livestock production: lessons from an Ethiopian goat development program by Ayalew, W., King, J.M., Bruns, E., Rischkowsky, Barbara A.

“…Conventional productivity evaluation criteria are inadequate to evaluate subsistence livestock production, because: (1) they fail to capture non-marketable benefits of the livestock; and (2) the core concept of a single limiting input is inappropriate to subsistence production, as multiple limiting inputs (livestock, labour and land) are involved in the production process. …”
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In vivo tests for the detection of resistance to trypanocidal drugs: Tests in mice and in ruminants by Geerts, S., Ndung'u, J.M., Murilla, G., Mbwambo, H., Sirryangwe, L., Machila, N., Delespaux, V., Brandt, J., Peregrine, A.S., McDermott, John J., Holmes, P.H., Eisler, M.C.

“…Furthermore, there is also a need to simplify the available tests for the detection of drug resistance, particularly the test in mice. Due to the labour-intensive protocols which are currently used, most of the available information on drug resistance is derived from limited numbers of case Reports and does not give any indication of the prevalence of resistance in a region or a country. …”
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Formal milk processing sector in Assam: Lessons to be learnt from institutional failure by Sirohi, S., Kumar, Anjani, Staal, Steven J.

“…The functional plants are operating at very low level of their installed capacity, have limited product profile, high returns of marketed milk, substantial handling and curdling losses, low productivity of capital and labour and huge operational losses. The poor performance of the plants has been attributed to the establishment of milk processing units without an appropriate assessment of output demand and input supply and ascertainment of economic viability of the plants. …”
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Overview of soil conservation technologies and their perception by farmers in Nigeria by Junge, B., Deji, O.F., Abaidoo, Robert C., Chikoye, David, Stahr, Karl, Kirchhof, G.

“…Education, knowledge on soil conservation, labour availability and membership in organisationshave a positive influence on the adoption rate of technologies.…”
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Exploring farmer perceptions of agricultural innovations for maize-legume intensification in the mid-hills region of Nepal by Alomia-Hinojosa, Victoria, Speelman, Erika N., Thapa, Arun, Wei, Hsiang-En, McDonald, Andrew J., Tittonell, Pablo Adrian, Groot, Jeroen C.J.

“…Yet, farmers final decisions to adopt some of the evaluated innovations were limited by a host of factors including labour scarcity, the availability of inputs, and by cultural preferences despite the increased yields. …”
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Assessment of flower number per inflorescence in grapevine by image analysis under field conditions by Diago-Santamaría, María P., Sanz-Garcia, Andres, Millan, Borja, Blasco, José, Tardáguila, Javier

“…Currently, practical methods to assess the flower number per inflorescence, necessary for fruit set estimation, are time and labour demanding. This work aims at developing a simple, cheap, fast, accurate and robust machine vision methodology to be applied to RGB images taken under field conditions, to estimate the number of flowers per inflorescence automatically. …”
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Tidsåtgång i system med självgående/självlastande fullfoderblandare by Boo, Henrik

“…The background of this study is the structural rationalization within the Swedish milk production that has put focus on efficiency and reducing of costs. Forage and labour are the two biggest costs in milk production today. …”
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Who gets what? : the community forest user group’s role in rebuilding communities by Lind, Lova

“…This thesis found that in doing so, the villagers are dependent on resources such as labour, cash, and timber. Drawing on empirical data from four study locations in the mid-hills of Nepal, this thesis then analyses how four different community forest user groups (CFUGs) have responded to the increased demand for timber for reconstruction that arose following the earthquake. …”

Accounting for growth in Swedish agriculture 1961–2019 : a study of productivity in Swedish agriculture by Nygårds, Jakob

“…The methods include a growth accounting model with aggregated indexed output and input factors in Swedish agriculture and polynomial trend regression models of TFP, labour productivity and land productivity. The results indicate that there has been a slowdown in productivity growth in Swedish agriculture since late 1980s. …”

Communication of corporate social responsibility by von Schantz, Carolina

“…A company that uses environmental friendly methods is eager to let the customers know about it, but a company that uses child labour in the production is hardly keen on informing about it. …”
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Gendered impacts of falling rubber prices: Changing livelihood strategies in China's rubber hearltand by Su, Y., Sujakhu, N.M., Smith, A.

“…Conversely, men have greater vocational flexibility, dominating the migrant labour workforce largely because women have additional caretaking responsibilities at home and less available time. …”
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Medios de vida y dinámica del uso del suelo en los Territorios indígenas Bribri y Cabecar de Talamanca, Costa Rica by Whelan, Matthew, Stoian, Dietmar, Wulfhorst, J.D., Somarriba, Eduardo, Soto, Gabriela, Prins, Kees

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ICT for food security in a changing climate: A path to women’s empowerment by Huyer, Sophia

“…Women play a critical role in food security in the developing world, but their agricultural activities are often characterised by gaps in information and resource access, with deficiencies in several areas: land, labour, credit, information, extension and technology. …”
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Access to finance and rural youth entrepreneurship in Benin: is there a gender gap? by Senou, M.M., Manda, J.

“…Rural entrepreneurship is an important employment generation intervention for the fast-growing young labour force in developing countries. Many bottlenecks including access to finance impede rural youths from performing in their new ventures. …”
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