Farm animals and their products have a longstanding and successful history of providing significant contributions to human nutrition, clothing, facilitation of labour, research, development and medicine and have thus been essential in improving life expectancy and human health. With the advent of transgenic technologies the potential of farm animals for improving human health is growing and man...

Agricultural mechanisation, as we know it today, is a relative newcomer to the art and science of profitable farming. It is only since the end of World War I1 that agricultural mechanisation has moved forward to take its place as one of the major factors concerned with profitable agricultural production. This rapid expansion has, together with all the many desirable attributes of mechanisation,...

Abstract In many developing and emerging economies, better employment opportunities in the non-farm sector have increased rural wages due to labour shortages during peak agricultural season. Increasing often cause a substitution of for mechanical power, but extensive use labour-saving technologies may displacement serious equity concerns. Using household individual fixed effect estimation appro...

Purpose: Agricultural support programmes most commonly aim at attaining higher production of raw food materials or supporting processes resulting in agricultural yield. One the important challenges is to increase labour productivity, thanks which working sector may be attractive comparison with non-agricultural sector. In literature, scope economy, there a lack consistent results concerning rel...

This paper explores the emerging labour regimes and consequences for agricultural commercialisation across multiple land-use types in post land reform Zimbabwe. The livelihoods of farmworkers, including those still resident former compounds, are explored. examines patterns employment, access, crop farming, asset ownership off-farm activities, highlighting diversification livelihoods. old patter...