Konferenzbeitrag
A framework for assessing the energy efficiency of non-mechanised agricultural systems in developing countries
Vorschaubild nicht verfügbar
Volltext URI
Dokumententyp
Text/Conference Paper
Zusatzinformation
Datum
2014
Autor:innen
Zeitschriftentitel
ISSN der Zeitschrift
Bandtitel
Verlag
BIS-Verlag
Zusammenfassung
There is a continuously growing global demand for agricultural products, including food, fodder
and fuels that urges for reasons of ensuring a sustainable development innovative methods to
assess the impact of agricultural management. Existing methods of energy efficiency analysis for
agricultural systems take into account human labour and draft animal power as inputs and consider
also land-use characteristics as factors affecting the production in systems in most developing
African countries. However, most of these methods fail to address properly different scales in
decision making, i.e. connecting the management planning level with regional development
considerations. With this paper, we introduce an alternative method to assess the energy efficiency
in agronomic land-use. Our work intends to conceive a comprehensive and scale sensitive
assessment framework that supports consulting land-use, decision making, and policy planning.