@article{Kirui:273522,
      recid = {273522},
      author = {Kirui, Oliver K. and von Braun, Joachim},
      title = {Mechanization in African Agriculture: A Continental  Overview on Patterns and Dynamics},
      address = {2018-06-07},
      number = {1547-2018-4171},
      series = {ZEF Working Paper Series No. 169},
      pages = {23},
      month = {Jun},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {This study provides an overview on the patterns and  dynamics of mechanization in African agriculture over the  10 year period (2005-2014). Farm level and value chain  related mechanization are considered. This study looks in  to pattern of agricultural mechanization along the entire  value chain (production, post-harvest, processing,  transport and storage) and compares it with the annual  average agricultural output over the same time period.  Clusters of countries are identified by grouping countries  into those that have simultaneously experienced high growth  rate in agricultural machinery and also in agricultural  output, including; Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi,  Mali, Morocco, Niger, Rwanda, Tanzania, Togo, and Zambia.  On the opposite side of the spectrum are countries with low  growth in machinery and in agricultural output, and include  for instance Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Egypt. In  general, there is a positive correlation (of 0.52) between  agricultural machinery growth and agricultural output  growth in Africa, which is a classical two – way  relationship, not to be interpreted as a causal one.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/273522},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.273522},
}