1,828 research outputs found
Cool transportation using Japan’s advanced technologies
No full textHiroyuki Takeshima Tokyo N4G Summit Side Event “How Japan’s know-how can help address food and nutrition challenges in the developing world” November 30, 202
Rebuilding Rural Livelihoods in Conflicted-affected Northeast Nigeria: Solar-Powered Cold Storages
No full textHiroyuki Takeshima The 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD8) Side Event: How Japan’s know-how can help address Africa’s food and nutrition challenges: Interventions and impacts SEP 28, 2022 - 6:00 TO 7:30PM JS
Introducing Market-oriented Horticulture Farming in Refugee Hosting Areas of Uganda: An Intervention that Builds Resilience against Future Emergency
No full textHiroyuki Takeshima SPECIAL EVENT UNFSS Independent Dialogue: The Critical Role of Agricultural Extension in Advancing the 2030 Agenda: Lessons from the Field and Empirical Evidence Co-Organized by IFPRI and Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA
Nepal: Impacts of the Ukraine and Global Crisis on Food Systems and Poverty
No full textPresentation prepared by Xinshen Diao, Paul Dorosh, Mia Ellis, Barun Deb Pal, Jenny Smart, Hiroyuki Takeshima, and James Thurlow, all with the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC. This is part of the Global Crisis Country Series
Supporting Ghana's agricultural mechanization program to better meet the needs of smallholder farmers
No full textWith support from PIM and USAID, researchers from IFPRI and CIMMYT together with Ghana government officials conducted a qualitative assessment of the Ghana Agricultural Mechanization Service Enterprise Centers (AMSECs) program. The recommendations from the study were used to improve the program’s inclusiveness and efficiency.Non-PRIFPRI1; CRP2; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; Capacity StrengtheningDSGD; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
Will promotion of agricultural mechanization help prevent child labour?
No full textThe FAO-IFPRI study, of which this policy brief is a summary, focuses on the use of tractors because they are among the most versatile farm mechanization tools and are universal power sources for all other driven implements and equipment in agriculture, with significant potential to replace animal draught power and human power, including children’s muscle power. Tractor use is typically also the first type of machine-powered equipment in use at lower levels of agricultural development, the context where most child labour is found. Mechanization is mostly assumed to reduce child labour, as it is expected to be labour saving in general. Yet, this is not always the case, as it has also been observed that the use of tractors and other machinery could increase children’s engagement in farm activities. This may be the case if, for instance, their use allows farms to cultivate larger areas, or if it leads to shifting chores of work from hired labor to family workers, e.g. for weeding edges of farmland not reachable by machinery. Evidence has been scant thus far, but the few available studies have mostly lent greater support to the hypothesis that mechanization reduces children’s productive engagement. Most available studies have focused on specific cases and based on scant data. The new FAO-IFPRI study provides a rigorous quantitative assessment for seven developing countries in Asia (India, Nepal and Viet Nam) and sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania) based on comparable farm household survey data.Non-PRIFPRI5; CRP2MTID; DSGD; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia?
No full textAgricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the continent’s evolving farming systems. Can Asia, with its recent success in adopting mechanization, offer a model for Africa? An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development analyzes the experiences of eight Asian and five African countries. The authors explore crucial government roles in boosting and supporting mechanization, from import policies to promotion policies to public good policies. Potential approaches presented to facilitating mechanization in Africa include prioritizing market-led hiring services, eliminating distortions, and developing appropriate technologies for the African context. The role of agricultural mechanization within overall agricultural and rural transformation strategies in Africa is also discussed. The book’s recommendations and insights should be useful to national policymakers and the development community, who can adapt this knowledge to local contexts and use it as a foundation for further research.
This record also includes the following synopsis:
Diao, Xinshen; Takeshima, Hiroyuki; and Zhang, Xiaobo, eds. 2020. An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia? Synopsis. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/978089629382
Mechanization of agricultural production in Kenya: Current state and future outlook
No full textAgricultural mechanization is the use of machinery, equipment, and implements—rather than human or animal power—to carry out agricultural practices. When the use of mechanization is sufficiently high, it can help improve the overall efficiency of food systems, reduce the costs of producing outputs and providing services, enhance economies of scale, and raise labor productivity and incomes (FAO and AUC 2018; Diao, Takeshima, and Zhang 2020). While mechanized practices are traditionally thought of in terms of tilling, seed drilling, and spraying, in recent years mechanization has been considered to include broader applications along the food system, such as irrigation, postharvest cleaning of harvests, cold storage, value addition, and processing
Expanding policy options for seed sector development
No full textLead authors: David J Spielman; Zewdie Bishaw; Isabel Lopez Noriega; Gloria Otieno; Ronnie Vernooy; Alice Muchugi; Tadesse Wuletaw Degu; Yigezu A. Yigezu; Catherine Ragasa; Hiroyuki Takeshima; Jean Balié; Graham Thiele; Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø; Bekele Kotu; Abdoul Aziz Niane; Tom van Mourik; Michael Halewood; Hakeem Ajeigbe; Norbert G. Maroya; Silver Tumwegamire; John Recha; Dawit Alem
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