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Public agricultural research has come under increasing pressure to redefine its strategic priorities to contribute to poverty alleviation goals. However, the issue of whether the poor benefit more from agricultural research that pursues efficiency or equity objectives remains unresolved, largely...
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A conservative ex-ante assessment of supply-shift gains alone (excluding social and environmental gains), shows that the investment in zero tillage (ZT) R&D by the Rice-Wheat Consortium and CIMMYT was highly beneficial with a benefit-cost ratio of 39, a net present value of US$ 94 million and an...
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Lithuania, and the change in incentives given to less efficient farms by the introduction of SAP. …
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This paper analyses total factor productivity growth in agriculture and its subsectors in Latin America and the … Caribbean between 1961 and 2007. To estimate productivity growth we use the Malmquist index, which is a non … the Caribbean shows the highest agricultural productivity growth, growing at an average rate of 1.9 percent, relative to a …
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Using a panel cointegration approach to estimate the agricultural total factor productivity in China …
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with accession to European Union. This paper investigates the effect of EU membership on the productivity performance of … accession. The implication for agricultural reform of future productivity growth has also been assessed. …
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This paper examines the connection between total factor productivity change and dairy farm size in Southern Chile, a …, productivity gains through technical efficiency or management improvements are limited while technological progress is rather low … productivity growth, a clear positive association between farm size and net income is found. …
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Recent low estimates of total factor productivity change for wool producers in the Australian sheep industry indicate … of industry performance, prompting us to re-estimate total factor productivity change for farmers in a benchmarking group … production. This change complicates the process of computing efficiency and productivity change. We demonstrate that a multi …
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Have the 1992 and 2000 CAP reforms had any discernable effect upon agricultural productivity? In this study we derive … detailed information on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of arable farms in Belgium over a 16-year period from 1987 …
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