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  • Commercializing smallholder mechanization, the role of public and private sectors
    (ACIAR, [2017?]) Jaleta, M.; Baudron, F.
    Smallholder mechanization is part of the recent agricultural transformation agenda that most African countries have embarked on, with the aim of improving agricultural productivity, bringing new farmland into production to feed the increasing population, and creating rural employment for the youth. However, the adoption of mechanization in smallholder agriculture cannot be achieved overnight. Rather, it is a process that involves both the public and the private sector, where governments set proper policies and strategies with medium to long-term goals aimed at transforming the type and level of farm power, and a vibrant private sector takes hold of the business opportunities stimulated by the government policies. Moreover, the private sector has to be able to respond to farmers’ immediate demand for machinery services at affordable prices. In this regard, government contribution in supporting business entities supplying machineries and machinery services to smallholder farmers is critical. The support may include the creation of enabling business environments and technical capacity building programs. A broad national mechanization scheme can start with the most demanded machinery services and gradually, and then a step wise process that takes account of business opportunities for service providers.
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  • Input subsidies or extension: which policy should take precedence when supporting farmers?
    (CIMMYT, [2017?]) Marenya, P.P.; Kassie, M.; Jaleta, M.; Erenstein, O.; Rahut, D.B.
    The Sustainable intensification of maize legume systems in eastern and southern Africa (SIMLESA) R4D project in conjunction with the adjunct Adoption Pathways project were designed to test the agronomic, economic and institutional requirements for CA-based sustainable agricultural intensification practices (CA-SAIPs) in five countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. One of the research efforts towards understanding some of the micro-level and policy enablers of CA-SAIPs looked at key household and farm-specific and macro (country specific) factors as predictors of adoption of two critical components of CA-SAIPs: minimum tillage and mulching. The study was done in four SIMLESA and Adoption Pathways project countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi. Many studies in the agricultural development literature that look at the adoption of agricultural technologies often study factors observed at the farm level and policy variables are often discussed as part of the broad interpretation of these results. In this brief we report on results from a study that is based both on adoption and policy simulations models.
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  • The benefit package: the promise of conservation agriculture in maize-based systems of Malawi and Mozambique
    (ACIAR, 2016) Jaleta, M.; Nyagumbo, I.; Siyeni, D.; Kamalongo, D.; Ngwira, A.R.; Cachomba, I.; Nhantumbo, A.; Cumbane, A.; George, C.; Chowa, S.T.; Mutenje, M.; Marenya, P.P.
    In addition to the long-term ecological benefits, conservation agriculture (CA) is attractive to farmers due to its short-term resource saving effects with little, if any, yield penalty. Compared to conventional practices, CA reduces labor demand for land preparation and weeding activities in maize production. Labor saving in land preparation under CA is associated with the shifting from soil banking in conventional practices to basin and dibble stick planting under CA in Malawi and Mozambique. Use of herbicides before planting maize reduces labor demand for weeding.
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