Labour‐saving technologies in smallholder agriculture: …
of labour-saving technologies in smallholder farming is a continuous process and often only concerns selective stages of the agricultural production process. The use of power tillers, for instance, lessens the labour requirement for land preparation, but other field operations, such as planting, weeding and harvesting, may remain unaffected.
Labour‐saving technologies in smallholder agriculture: An …
The adoption of labour-saving technologies in smallholder farming is a continuous process and often only concerns selective stages of the agricultural production process. The use of power tillers, for instance, lessens the labour requirement for land preparation, but other field operations, such as planting, weeding and harvesting, may remain ...
Lightening the load
This publication looks back at three decades of experiences in introducing labour-saving technologies and practices to rural women and persisting gender discrimination in access and control. It also takes into account …
The Present, Past, and Future of Labor-Saving …
The present chapter provides a historical reappraisal of labor-saving technologies. It reviews and systematizes theoretical contributions and empirical …
Labour Saving vs. Labour Augmenting
$begingroup$ I guess this doesn't have that much to do with the technology itself, but rather whether the firm wants to increase output in proportion to the increase in productivity or not. If it doesn't then people will lose their jobs (labour saving technology). If the firm is happy with the increase in output, people can keep their jobs …
LABOR-SAVING | English meaning
LABOR-SAVING definition: 1. US spelling of labour-saving 2. A labor-saving device or method saves a lot of effort and time…. Learn more.
Labour-saving technology and advanced marginality – …
pay closer attention to the particular role of technology under capital-ism. Key words abstract labour, advanced marginality, capitalism, displacement, labour-saving technology, unemployment Introduction The story of Finnish companies' significant advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) during the 1990s has …
Under Capitalism, "Labor-Saving" Technology Only Adds to …
Hans Zobel. Upon its launch ten years ago, Germany's Industry 4.0 program promised a fourth industrial revolution changing the way we work. Yet for all the talk of novelty, it followed age-old capitalist imperatives: using labor-saving technology not to lessen our workload but subject us to even tighter workplace discipline.
The Present, Past, and Future of Labor-Saving Technologies
Against a reductionist approach conceiving robots as the only threat for labor displacement, it shall be argued that labor-saving technologies consist of a complex and heterogeneous bundle of innovations uncovering a much wider set of artifacts and functions. The present chapter provides a historical reappraisal of labor-saving technologies. It reviews and …
Fostering the uptake of labour-saving technologies
of labour-saving technologies and practices: possible pitfalls and manageable solutions Research and case studies have shown that the identification and introduction of labour-saving technologies is not, in itself, sufficient. There are also external factors that influence women's capacity to adopt technologies; these
Labour‐saving automation: A direct measure of …
This article represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and labour-saving robotic patents, the underlying 4-digit CPC (Cooperative Patent Classification) code definitions, together with O*NET (Occupational Information Network) …
Labour saving technologies and practices: Conservation …
• Labour saving technologies and practices. Raised beds: TECA ID 7299 • Labour saving technologies and practices. Row planting, hand seeders and planters: TECA ID 7301 • Labour saving technologies and practices. Seeds and crops: TECA ID 7302 • Labour saving technologies and practices. Weed wipes and knapsack sprayers: TECA …
[PDF] LEMLEM W ORKING P APER S ERIES Climate change and labour-saving …
This paper provides a direct understanding of the twin transition from the innovative activity domain. It starts with a technological mapping of the technological innovations characterised by both climate change mitigation/adaptation (green) and labour-saving attributes. To accomplish the task, we draw on the universe of patent grants in the USPTO since 1976 …
Lightening the Load
3. How providing improved technologies free can be counter-productive 18 4. A range of fuels for domestic cooking 19 5. Decentralized grid systems 21 6. Gender and the Peru Rural Roads Program 23 7. Transport technologies and changes in the division of labour 26 8. Labour and time-saving crop processing technologies 29 9.
Labor‐saving technologies and structural transformation in …
Labor-saving technologies played a fundamental role historically in the structural transformation of agrarian economies. We focus on an emerging labor-saving trend in Ghana, use of motorized tricycles (MTs), which provide an affordable alternative to manually transferring crops from plots to homestead. A survey collected in …
Labor‐saving technologies in Manantali, Mali
Facing enduring labor shortages, West Africans have long adopted labor-saving technologies. Using data from a study of 108 s in 2016–18 in Manantali, Mali, this article looks at the availability, adoption, uses, and outcomes of common labor-saving technologies in agriculture, domestic provision, transport, and …
kolkata labour saving technologies grinders
In addition, it wears out components (e.g., conveyers and grinders) of the processing machines. A four-capsule packet of of Pusa Decomposer costs Rs20, from which 25 …Tool 6: A Good Quality, Sharp Chef's Knife. This tool is a must in many cooks' kitchens. Use a chef's knife to quickly chop, cut, slice, dice and mince fresh produce.
Gender and innovative and labour-saving technologies
FAO hosts the Technologies and Practices for Small Agricultural Producers (TECA), a dedicated platform that includes over 100 labour-saving and innovative technologies and practices adopted by many countries and that organizes share fairs on these technologies, bringing together policy-makers, planners, researchers, rural people, civil society …
Labour-saving technologies and employment levels
This paper exploits natural language processing techniques to detect explicit labour-saving goals in inventive efforts in robotics and assess their relevance for …
Robots and the origin of their labour-saving impact
Indeed, robots (and even more so intelligent robots) are technologies which within the recent Industry 4.0 wave are particularly suited to substituting human labour. In fact, incorporated within standard robotics, AI enables robots to perform an increasing variety of tasks and functions.
A systematic review of labor-saving technologies: …
We include all the studies which explored the technologies inducing time savings, reducing the time burden of men and women in agriculture, alleviating the labor …
Labor-Saving Technologies in the Javanese Rice Economy: …
It presents the recent introduction of pre-emergence herbicides as a potential revolution in labour-saving technologies, comparable to that of small rice mills and sickles. The evidence shows that the growing use of tractors and machine threshers is further reducing labour inputs. These changes will have a profound effect on the role of …
A systematic review of labor-saving technologies: …
We systematically review labor-saving technologies adoption in developing countries. • Availability & dissemination of gender-friendly technologies are vital. • Future …
Reducing rural women's domestic workload through labour-saving …
IFAD has released a toolkit on reducing rural women's domestic workload with the following components:. Teaser describes why labour-saving technologies and practices are needed to reduce women's domestic workload and the benefits to be gained, with examples from IFAD-supported projects.. How To Do note offers practical guidance …
Labour-saving technologies and employment levels
This paper exploits natural language processing techniques to detect explicit labour-saving goals in inventive efforts in robotics and assess their relevance for different occupational profiles and the impact on employment levels. The analysis relies on patents published by the European Patent Office between 1978 and 2019 and firm-level data …
Gender and innovative and labour-saving technologies
Gender and innovative, labour-saving technologies. FAO supports farmers across all agricultural subsectors with innovative technologies and practices for crop, fisheries, livestock and forest management. The …
Labour-saving technologies and practices: conservation …
All those practices are labour-saving technologies. Description. 1. Features of conservation agriculture. Conservation agriculture is the simultaneous practice of permanent soil cover, minimal soil disturbance and crop rotations. This is achieved by: the maintenance of a permanent vegetative soil cover or mulch to protect the soil surface ...
Labour-saving technologies and practices: seeds and crops …
Labour-saving technologies and practices: weed wipes and knapsack sprayers: ID 7303. Labour-saving technologies and practices: row planting, hand seeders and planters: ID 7301. 6. Objectives fulfilled by the project 6.1 Labour-saving technology (LST) Some crops are less labour-intensive with improved output and yield relative to labour input.
Reducing rural women's domestic workload …
The primary value of domestic labour-saving technologies and practices in rural and agricultural development programmes is to increase human capital. This is …
