INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION OF AFRICA’S AGRICULTURAL SECTOR A PARADIGM SHIFT TRANSFORMATION

Agriculture is still the dominant occupation of over 70% of the African rural farmers. Increasing the operations of Africa’s agriculture is thus very essential in attaining industrial revolution and shift resulting in Africa’s agriculture sector growth and obliteration of poverty in African countries. The sudden break-out of industrial agro-revolution experienced an overwhelming increase in in agricultural outputs and sector development. Improved methods of production involving the use of machines and mechatronics had drastically reduced the use of old methods of cultivation (animal and human labours) which deface agriculture making it a tedious enterprise. Furthermore, the invention and introduction of advanced emerging technologies in agriculture had overhaul the entire sector aligning and fortifying it into a profitable and viable enterprise thus driving agro-industrial revolution cum transformation. This has further increased the level of agricultural productivity in terms of yields, outputs, and overall economic gains. Conclusively, agricultural innovations, revolution and transformations are currently at the third stage of industrial revolution awaiting metamorphosis into the fourth industrial revolution where advanced technologies and its drifts such as the virtual reality (VR), agro-robotics (AR), Internet of Things (IT), and artificial intelligence (AI) are domiciled and seriously changing our work patterns and ways of life. Hence, African governments are to exploit the benefits of industrial revolution via the use of advanced technological tools and inclusive policy instruments to nurture economic growth, sector development and overall transformation of the African economy

Black Africans in Barcelona, Spain: An Exploration of Integration into Catalan Society

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An Analysis of Core Networks among First-Generation Immigrants

Examining core networks has implications for the ability of first-generation immigrants to build social capital and engage in upward mobility in future generations. Using data from the Greater Boston Social Survey, I examine core networks of Puerto Rican and Dominican immigrants to find determinants of having a non-household centered core network, its size, and racial diversity. Ethnicity, organizational membership, and having medium skin tone all had positive effects on core network size. Puerto Ricans fared better in terms of having a core network as well as racial heterogeneity in their networks. Education was an important determinant of network size and diversity for Dominican immigrants. Overall, organizational membership increased the likelihood of having a more racially diverse core network

An Analysis of Core Networks among First-Generation Immigrants

Examining core networks has implications for the ability of first-generation immigrants to build social capital and engage in upward mobility in future generations. Using data from the Greater Boston Social Survey, I examine core networks of Puerto Rican and Dominican immigrants to find determinants of having a non-household centered core network, its size, and racial diversity. Ethnicity, organizational membership, and having medium skin tone all had positive effects on core network size. Puerto Ricans fared better in terms of having a core network as well as racial heterogeneity in their networks. Education was an important determinant of network size and diversity for Dominican immigrants. Overall, organizational membership increased the likelihood of having a more racially diverse core network