area expanded at 4.7 percent. The remaining growth resulted from intensive use of other inputs, increased productivity …

policy environment and increased attention to agriculture has had a major effect on overall productivity growth based on … technical efficiency gains. The bad news is that most of this productivity growth is the result of countries recovering from the …

reduce food exports in Western Europe. Will the transition to market- oriented policy regimes in Eastern Europe and the … former Soviet Union expand agricultural production there, eventually offsetting the reductions in Western Europe and leading … countries? Addressing these questions quantitatively, Rod Tyers concludes that agricultural exports in Eastern Europe and the …

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

hiring services and nonadopters of similar characteristics. The results are two-fold: (1) adoptions patterns of tractor … services are partly explained by basic factor endowments, suggesting that the market for custom hiring is in some way …

milk productivity, milk commercialization, and food expenditure. …