Farm
Power and Sustainable Livelihoods
Ghana,
Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
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Partners |
Start
date
Aug 2001 |
End
date
July 2002 |
Commitment
(£)
N/A |
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FAO’s
Agricultural
and Food Engineering Technologies Service (AGST) |
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National
Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), Agricultural Engineering
and Appropritate Technology Research Institute, Uganda |
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Ministry
of Agriculture, Zambia |
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Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi/Ghana and
University of Cape Coast, Ghana |
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University
Ile-life, Nigeria and Agricultural and Rural Management Training
Institure (ARMTI), Ilorin, Nigeria |
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International
Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Ethiopia |
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Ministry
of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), Tanzania |
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Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Malawi |
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Funder |
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Food
and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) |
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Contacts
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Josef
Kienzle, Agricultural Engineer, AGST Josef.Kienzle@fao.org
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 Purpose
To better understand different forms of farm power in different
farming contexts and assess its role in smallholder livelihoods.
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Lessons: |
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Farm
Power and Smallholder Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
Clare Bishop-Sambrook, FAO, June 2004 HTML
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A
Livelihoods Approach for Analysing the Farm Power Asset Base at the
Household Level
Clare Bishop-Sambrook, FAO, June 2004 HTML
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Farm
Power – Present and Future Availability in Developing Countries
Lawrence Clarke and Clare Bishop FAO, Rome Italy PDF |
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Use of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches
This research studied farm power and its role in smallholder livelihoods.
The study concentrated on the power inputs used for primary tillage
(preparing the land prior to planting, either by digging by hand
or ploughing using draught animals or tractors). In many farming
systems in the region, the use of draught animals and tractors is
almost exclusively confined to primary tillage and all other operations
rely on hand power .
The
study drew on the livelihoods methodology (DFID, 1998) to examine
the contribution of farm power to smallholder livelihoods. This
work addressed four themes at the community level: developments
in the use of farm power in the twentieth century; classification
of communities by their predominant source of farm power; livelihoods
in principal farm power systems; and key elements of the farm power
system.
The
study was undertaken in 14 communities from seven countries: Ghana
and Nigeria in West Africa, and Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda
and Zambia in Eastern and Southern Africa. The communities were
chosen to be broadly representative of the region, covering six
of the ten principal farming systems, with emphasis on the maize
mixed system (the dominant food production system in east and southern
Africa), and the mixed cereal-root and tree crop systems (typical
of west Africa) .
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