Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4042091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Weiner (0000-0003-0602-9026), Prabhu Pingali (0000-0002-7208-1589), Yves Bigot (0000-0001-9476-0710), H P Binswanger |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 391 |
| Publication date | 1988-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa, Prabhu L Pingali, 1987 |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/144242 |
| OpenAlex | W2325592126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agroforestry · Business · Economics · Geography · Mechanization · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Environmental Science
What factors are inducing or impeding the adoption of agricultural mechanization? Revisiting farm scale, overhead capital and spatial divergence
Fair Exchange
Intensificação de sistemas de produção através da mecanização na região da Transamazônica
Intensificação de sistemas de produção através da mecanização na região da Transamazônica
Population Density and Fertility in Farm Households
The Sahel in West Africa
Soil fertility management and socio-economic factors in crop-livestock systems in Burkina Faso
Constraints on the design of sustainable systems of agricultural production
Economic incentives and natural resource management among small-scale farmers
Livestock in africa
The role of technology in enhancing low resource agriculture in Africa
Population growth and land degradation
Human-Environmental Influences and Interactions in Shifting Agriculture When Farmers Form Expectations Rationally
Ten striking facts about agricultural input use in Sub-Saharan Africa
Can small farms benefit from big companies’ initiatives to promote mechanization in Africa? A case study from Zambia
Assessing the impact of improved agricultural technologies on household income in rural Mozambique
From green revolution to food security in sub-Saharan Africa
Agricultural commercialization and diversification
Agricultural intensification
Development pathways for hillsides and highlands
The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa
Heterogenous correlates of mechanization use and rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe
Tractors, states, markets and agrarian change in Africa
The politics of mechanisation in Zimbabwe
Old tractors, new policies and induced technological transformation
Shifting cultivation and “deforestation”
Agricultural transformations in India and Northern Nigeria
Brazilian policies that encourage deforestation in the Amazon
Vector-borne disease control in sub-Saharan Africa
Population growth and agriculture in poor countries
Designing Agricultural Technology for African Women Farmers
Links between rural poverty and the environment in developing countries
Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar
Land registration in Africa
The political economy of the ‘green revolution’ in Africa
Dual economic growth in poor tropical areas
The Persistence of Self-Provisioning Among Smallholder Farmers in Northeast Madagascar
Changing Access to Labor, Pastures, and Knowledge
The Rationality of Shifting Cultivation Systems
Analysing plausible futures from past patterns of land change in West Burkina Faso
Mixed farming in Africa
Assessment through socioecological abstraction
Mechanisation of small-scale farms in South Asia
Why do they burn the 'bush'? Fire, rural livelihoods, and conservation in Zambia
Transfer of Taiwanese ideas and technology to The Gambia, West Africa
Changes within Small-Scale Agriculture. A Case-Study from the Southwestern Tanzania
Population pressure, agricultural intensification and changes in rural systems in Bangladesh
Population and Savings
Contracts With Eviction in Infinitely Repeated Principal–Agent Relationships
Food Needs and Work Capacity
Interlinkages and the Pattern of Competition
Peasants' Risk Aversion and the Choice of Marketing Intermediaries and Contracts
A Note on Interlinked Rural Economic Arrangements
Axiomatic Bargaining Theory
Agrarian Structure, Technological Innovations, and the State
Institutional Analysis of Credit Co‐Operatives
Theories of Sharecropping
Poverty and the Environmental Resource Base
On Choice Among Creditors and Bonded Labour Contracts
A Comparison of Principal–Agent and Bargaining Solutions
The Objects of Social Contracts
The Commodity Basis of Well‐Being
Well‐Being
Incentives and Development Policies
Credit Rationing, Tenancy, Productivity, and the Dynamics of Inequality
Analysis of Allocation Mechanisms When Nutrition Affects Productivity
Production Relations in Semi‐Arid African Agriculture
Resource Allocation Mechanisms
Public Goods and Common‐Property Resources
Decentralization and Central Guidance
Net National Product in a Dynamic Economy
Land, Labour, Savings, and Credit
Agricultural Institutions for Insurance and Stabilization
Real National Income as a Measure of General Well‐Being
Political Morality and the State
Uncertainty, Insurance, and Social Norms
The Realization of Well‐Being
Inequality, Malnutrition, and the Disfranchised
Food, Care, and Work
Rural Credit Markets
Adaptation to Undernourishment
Classical Utilitarianism in a Limited World
Fertility and Resources
Some Aspects of Linked Product and Credit Market Contracts Among Risk‐Neutral Agents
Agricultural Producer Co‐Operatives
Strategic Complementarities in Fertility Decisions
Households and Credit Restraints
Chapter 65 Farm Size
Induced intensification
Credit and Agrarian Class Structure
Alternative Approaches to the Theory of Institutions in Economic Development
Why agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa remains low compared to the rest of the world – a historical perspective
Smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for two‐wheel tractor‐based mechanisation services in Zambia and Zimbabwe
Rural mechanization for equitable development
Land Use in an Urban Hinterland
Non-Boserupian Ecology and Agricultural Risk
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
Demographic transition in sub-Saharan Africa
Population Growth and the Environment in Africa
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |