Generally and not specific to agricultural mechanization, investment in the region will be guided by economic and policy principles that are coupled with a market-led approach. This approach will be shaped by transformational trends that are currently observed in many regions in Africa. It is likely that investment will occur only in selective value-chains and within specific nodes of these valuechains. These commodities or value-chains will be characterised by their potential in terms of demand growth (either import replacement or export growth), existing investment, policy support and agroecological conditions. We anticipate that these investments will be facilitated through spatial targeting and business feasibility throughout the entire value-chain that conforms to business principles such as risk and return.
After decades of persistently low use of agricultural mechanization, the proportion of African farmers using tractors has increased since roughly 2005. Conventional perceptions are that tractor use in subSaharan Africa is confined mainly to large-scale commercial farms, however, there is mounting evidence of increasing use of tractors by smallholder farmers. To date, the drivers of the rising use of mechanization services remain poorly understood. Hence, to anticipate the changes in mechanization in Africa over the next two to three decades we need to understand the driving forces behind the increasing mechanization trend over the past decade.
Secondly, we need to understand and interpret the implication of existing macro-economic- and demographic trends and the changing landscape of the African farmer, which in many cases is conducive for agricultural transformation, in the context of mechanization adoption. Examples include
changing farm structures and the rise of the medium-scale (MS) farmer in many Sub-Saharan African countries, the pace of urbanization, dietary changes, growth in rural and urban populations, positive economic growth and changes in per capita income.
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