The slow pace of agricultural mechanization in Africa has long been a puzzle. This book begins to solve the puzzle by looking at the conditions in sub-Saharan A

The manual work carried out by farmers and their families is often both arduous and time consuming and in many countries this is a major constraint to increasin

This book presents an integrated analysis of the dynamics of the economics of households and farm production in the setting of a polygynous family structure and

Many previous publications on farm mechanization, draught animal power, hand tool technology, etc. have tended to be narrowly focused. The topic of farm power a

Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the cont