We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA's) agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 … performance and decline. That recovery is the consequence of improved efficiency in production, resulting from changes in the …

"We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 40 years … poor performance and decline. That recovery is the consequence of improved efficiency in production resulting from changes …

productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the … support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural … productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost …

Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experi-mental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the … the benefits from any improvements in input use intensity (technical efficiency). For this purpose, we adopted a data … envelopment analysis-based Malmquist-type productivity index to decompose productivity differences into (1) within-group farm …

"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for … household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick … efficiency and poverty reduction. Overall, regression results confirm the negative impact of health impediment on farmers …

area expanded at 4.7 percent. The remaining growth resulted from intensive use of other inputs, increased productivity …, increased efficiency, or a combination of these factors. This study applies growth accounting and two econometric approaches on …

continental migration on technical efficiency in the production of two cereals—millet and sorghum—by rural households. Econometric … positive relation between continental migration and technical efficiency and a negative relation between intercontinental … migration and technical efficiency. In an imperfect market environment, continental migration is associated with greater …

agricultural output, this method explicitly incorporates efficiency differences in the analysis. The empirical analysis uses panel … improvements during the 1994–2004 period. Nonetheless productivity levels in 2009 were not different from levels in 1994, and … they had declined between 2004 and 2009. Average level of farming efficiency for the surveyed farmers across all the years …