BACKGROUND: The starting point for the design of effective programs to mitigate the impacts of AIDSrelated adult mortality is accurate information on how households are affected by, and respond to, premature death. This note presents key findings from the study, Measuring the Effects of Prime-Age Adult Death on Rural Households in Kenya. The full report is downloadable from the web address abov...

Raising agricultural productivity and accelerating agricultural growth are commonly promoted as core development strategies throughout Africa, since the majority of the continent’s poor and malnourished population depends largely on farming. Despite these strategies, agricultural growth in Africa lags behind overall economic growth, and agricultural performance falls below that of other develop...

A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

The implementation of the land circulation system has brought new opportunities for China's agricultural development, and building the agricultural demonstration park is an important measure to promote the efficient development of modern agriculture. Integrating the concept of smart into the construction of agricultural demonstration park can promote the sustainable development of the park. Thi...

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Abstract. Two autonomous robots were developed as platforms for crop/soil scouting and future robotic field operations. The robots have differing technological philosophies. AgBo is a flexible industrial style robot with a sophisticated steering, sensing and communication arrangement. It has independent four-wheel steering, four steering modes (inc...

1. The public sector dominates Lesotho‘s agricultural sector. The public sector provides strategic direction for agriculture; chooses appropriate technologies; provides almost all of the capital used in the sector and assumes most of the risk associated with sector performance. The public sector treats farming per se as one among many ―Marginal Livelihood Strategies‖ available to poor farmers r...

Over the past four decades Taiwan's economy has experienced significant structural change. At the outset of this period, Taiwan was just recovering from the ravages of World War II, and the economy was heavily dominated by the agricultural sector, which accounted for one-third of the net domestic product, more than half (56 percent) of total employment, and 92 percent of total exports. By 1988 ...