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Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria
(2020-01)
Agricultural mechanization can contribute to agricultural transformation. However, there is a need to find institutional solutions allowing smallholder farmers, who play a key role in agricultural development, to access ...
Connected cows and cyber chickens?: Stocktaking and case studies of digital livestock tools in Kenya and India
(2021-07)
There are high hopes that digital tools can help to reduce constraints to livestock development, which in turn promises to alleviate poverty and ensure food and nutrition security. Yet, little systematic evidence exists ...
Like Uber for Tractors?: How to strengthen the rural sharing economy in India and Africa
(2020-07)
With even basic models costing 10.000 Euro, tractors are out of reach for most smallholder farmers. However, farmers do not need to own tractors in order to benefit from them. Following the idea of the sharing economy, ...