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   Agricultural mechanization: A key input for sub-Saharan Africa smallholders

   Manuals & Guidelines

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   December, 2016

   Global

   Land & Food Security

   agricultural land management

   capacity development

   farming systems

   food security

   sustainable land management

   sustainable land use

   This paper is specifically about agricultural mechanisation: the opportunities provided by mechanisation for intensifying production in a sustainable manner, in value addition and agri-food value chain development, as well as the inherent opportunities implied for improved local economies and livelihoods. The establishment of viable business enterprises agro-processors, transport services, and so forth as a result of increased agricultural mechanisation in rural areas, is crucial to creating employment and income opportunities and, thereby, enhancing the demand for farm produce.