🥳🚨New paper from our group: 🐂🚜Animal traction, two-wheel tractors, or 4WT? What fits-best where in Africa? We present a framework for policymakers and practitioners to provide some guidance.

Animal traction, two-wheel tractors, or four-wheel tractors? A best-fit approach to guide farm mechanization in Africa shorturl.at/ctQU4

#Phoenix, der Agrarroboter der #UniHohenheim, zeigt bei #LivenachNeun im rundawn als "Alleskönner auf dem Acker", wie #KI & #Robotik in Zukunft #Klimaschutz, #Umweltschutz & #Nachhaltigkeit in der #Landwirtschaft vorantreiben können: ardmediathek.de/video/live-nac… Foto: @bmel /Photothek

La technologie peut stimuler l'agriculture en Afrique, mais elle peut aussi menacer la biodiversité: comment trouver un équilibre entre les deux? theconversation.com/la-technologie…

See our latest story here: Technology can boost farming in Africa, but it can also threaten biodiversity – how to balance the two bit.ly/47c7bfa

Congrats to our PhD student Vida Mantey for winning the 2. poster price at the 6th African Agricultural Economics Conference! 💐🏆🎉 Well done!

Thomas Daum presenting some of our ongoing work on agricultural innovation systems and sustainable transformation in Africa.

Great summary of our ongoing work on the African pesticide revolution led by Louis Schwarze: “Selling pesticides like biscuits” – challenges of pesticide governance in Zambia See: tinyurl.com/nwpd75cb

Congratulations to our PhD student Louis Schwarze, parts of his important work on pesticide governance were just published in Rural 21👇

🎉Excited to share our latest article on local machinery manufacturing from the @PARI_ZEF project! It was a fantastic collaboration with great scholars from across Africa. doi.org/10.1002/jid.38…

Short article with great illustrations in the latest issue of the Current Conservation (Current Conservation), on biodiversity-smart agriculture, with Frédéric Baudron and Matin Qaim, among others. See: currentconservation.org/addressing-agr…

🎉New Working Paper, led by Viviane Yameogo, on the conditions which influence cooperation and resource-pooling in polygynous households, applying an adapted version of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. See here: 490c.uni-hohenheim.de/fileadmin/einr…

🎉New article on financing climate-smart agriculture in India, led by Roberto Villalba and Garima Joshi, with @TereseVenus . Open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

THANK YOU LETTER TO MY PROFESSORS A note of appreciation to two of my most respected Professors – Prof Regina Birner and Pro Thomas Daum (Thomas Daum ) Right from the first DM to Prof Daum in January 2021, after reading his high-ranking article on 'Farm Tractorization in Africa'

🎉 New article in Agriculture and Human Values, led by Francisco Hidalgo: How do coffee farmers engage with digital technologies? A capabilities perspective. See here : link.springer.com/article/10.100…

IPPAE is inviting new applications for the 2025 incoming year! Please apply for DAAD sponsored PhD scholarships via our website at uni-giessen.de/ippae. Deadline is 31 August 2024. #PhD #StudyinGermany #Research #AgriculturalEconomics #Bioeconomy #FoodSystems #Sustainability

🚨📢#JustPublished: "Toward inclusive #mechanization? Two-wheel tractor-based service markets in #Ethiopia, #BurkinaFaso, and #Zimbabwe" 👉 tinyurl.com/4jdmvjt8 CIMMYT Uni Hohenheim GIZ Cirad

NEWS STORY ⎮ In a research project in #Zambia, #farmers' perspectives on #pesticides and governance challenges were examined using participatory mapping techniques to propose practical solutions for improved governance. buff.ly/3VfMDyx

New WP on sustainable livestock development in Africa, led by Juliet Kariuki. We propose a novel conceptual framework to categorize livestock management systems, their trajectories, and sustainability implications. With insights from Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Zambia. @PARI_ZEF