"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 …

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 …

the benefits from any improvements in input use intensity (technical efficiency). For this purpose, we adopted a data … efficiency differences, reflecting the technical efficiency effect, and (2) differences in the group production frontier …

. Since 1998, Papa Andina has worked with partners in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru to stimulate pro-poor innovation within market …), researchers, and other service providers have engaged in innovation processes via two principal tools for facilitating collective …, and institutional innovation through a structured process that builds interest, trust, and collaboration among …

–private partnerships contribute to reducing the cost of research, whether they add value to research by facilitating innovation, and …

first identifies a set of indicators from secondary data sources that measure the key elements of an agricultural innovation … Innovation Index (ADII). The paper then provides a toolkit for collecting and analyzing “systems-oriented” indicators that add …"The rapidly changing nature of the global food and agriculture system suggests the need to rethink how innovation can …

"This paper describes how governments and philanthropic donors could drive innovation through a new kind of technology …