Agricultural machinery market development for ensuring food security

Ensuring food and nutrition security

Ensuring that everyone in the world has access to enough nutritious food should be at the forefront of the post-2015 development discussions, as recently emphasized by the Secretary-General through the launch of the Zero Hunger Challenge.1 The present chapter highlights the changes needed in the food system to ensure food and nutrition security by 2050 and the challenges involved, given that ma...

Improving food security through increasing the precision of agricultural development

Development of DGPS Guidance System for Agricultural Machinery

The purpose of this research was to develop a kind of light bar parallel guidance system based on DGPS for small agriculture machinery. This system consists of field computer, light bar and DGPS. The field computer is developed using PC/104 CPU module, running on which the embedded realtime operation system was customized by a special development tool. Single chip and CAN controller was selecte...

Development of Vibration Agricultural Machinery Protection Seats for

Seats have been newly developed with an anti-vibration suspension system for agricultural machinery. These seats were examined in a series of laboratory tests to determine their static and dynamic physical characteristics. These seats are specifically designed for the Japanese physique. An artificial track was constructed to simulate a farm field based on BSI (British Standard) and to examine v...

Agricultural Aid and Food Security in Africa

This paper investigates the effects of agricultural aid on food security in African countries during the the 1990 to 2012 period. Defining food security as increases in agricultural productivity and controlling for a large number of covariates, we find that agricultural aid, at the aggregate level, aid to the agricultural sector has positive and statistically significant effect on food security...