Little to no mechanization of agriculture: Energy can be applied to agriculture in all phase of the production: farm machinery, water management, irrigation, cultivation and harvesting. Despite these needs in Africa energy use for agriculture in negligible compared to the rest of the world even though most of the arable lands are found in Africa leading to low food production and food insecurities. Mechanizing soil preparation and harvesting can increase the production land for small scale farmers, improve harvesting procedures. Because of high cost of mechanization and high fuel cost small scale farmers cannot afford to purchase individually the equipment needed to improve soil preparation, harvesting equipment, preprocessing of harvests etc. In this regard there is a crucial need for shared mechanized agriculture equipment that are energy efficient (zero to low carbon emission vehicles).