Africa: Breaking Hoe - Can Mechanization End Africa's Hunger Crisis?: [Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA -- As African nations strive to address food insecurity and reduce their dependence on costly food imports, experts and policymakers argue that mechanization could be the missing link to achieving food sovereignty by 2050. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TL0SjN #Africa #FoodSecurity #Mechanization #Agriculture #Sustainability
Farm vehicles now weigh almost as much as heaviest dinosaurs – here’s why that’s a problem

Whether a combine harvester or a Diplodocus is the cause, compacted soils are a big problem.

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> .. the introduction of mechanical power ; yet, its beneficial influence on the condition of the working classes, is not only.. doubted, but in.. publications.. denied. It is viewed as depriving the greater portion.. of their only capital, "labour" and.. curtailing their means of purchasing.. commodities necessary for subsistence, however low the price..
#GeorgeBrowning in The Domestic and Financial Condition of Britain
#Mechanization #Progress

Commission work for VVFIN over on FA!

Ava running in to Lucas and deciding he could use an upgrade.

What would they get up to, i wonder :3c

#tftg #twinning #cloning #mechanization

The diffusion of mechanized silk-reeling, a key element in Japan’s precocious industrialization, is dissected by Shota Moriwaki using 1880s plant-level panel data for Gifu & Yamanashi in a new paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review @apehr https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12256
@econhist @econhistory @devecon @ecosocio @economics @industrialorganization @politicalscience @geography #history #histodons #Japan #industrialization #industrial #mechanization #silk #Meiji #Gifu #Yamanashi #productivity
Agricultural #mechanization is needed to make #foodsystems more #sustainable (labor #productivity, #poverty reduction, #foodsecurity, and #health & well-being). Remaining #sustainability risks regarding some environmental & social aspects can be managed: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-023-00868-x
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review - Agronomy for Sustainable Development

There is an urgent need for agri-food system transformation to achieve global sustainability goals. Innovations can play a key role in this transformation but often come with both sustainability synergies and trade-offs. One such innovation is agricultural mechanization, which is spreading rapidly in parts of the Global South and is high on the policy agenda in others. The rapid spread of mechanization is fundamentally changing the character of agri-food systems in the Global South, with both positive and negative effects. However, while some of these effects have been well explored, no study so far has systematically reviewed the sustainability synergies and trade-offs associated with mechanization, undermining necessary accompanying research and policy efforts. This review provides an overview of the progress toward mechanization across the Global South, identifies drivers and barriers, assesses sustainability synergies and trade-offs, and discusses options to maximize sustainability outcomes. The review is the first to holistically assess the potentials and risks of agricultural mechanization for the sustainable transformation of agri-food systems in the Global South, taking into account all pillars of sustainability. The review suggests that agricultural mechanization is needed to make agri-food systems more sustainable concerning various economic and social aspects, such as labor productivity, poverty reduction, food security, and health and well-being. However, there are also sustainability risks concerning environmental aspects such as biodiversity loss and land degradation, and economic and social concerns related to lacking inclusiveness and growing inequalities, among others. A wide range of technological and institutional solutions is identified to harness the potential of agricultural mechanization for sustainable agri-food system transformation, while at the same time minimizing the risks. However, more efforts are needed to implement such solutions at scale and ensure that mechanization contributes to agri-food systems that respect all pillars of sustainability.

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So, this is going to be an extension of my introduction. I've been posting a lot of my sketches and quick work but ... how about a complete work. A piece of artwork I actually have sold for money?

Here is a picture I did for FC 2020 depicting a dystopian far future world of food delivery. 8 weeks of work, not 5 minutes. XD

#art #furry #furryart #scifi #sciencefiction #dystopia #flying #dragons #mechanization