agricultural growth in Brazil has largely been the result of gains in productivity over the last several decades. Still, there … remain some sub-national regions and states that lag behind in both agricultural productivity and levels of per capita income … regions with focus on the evolution and patterns of land productivity. To assess such spillovers, we examine three cereal …

related to the symptoms of poverty at the expense of the longer-term needs to raise productivity and incomes, and thereby … smallholder productivity, achieve food security, and reduce poverty, while providing the social services that respond to immediate … welfare requirements. The main objective of the convergence agenda exposed in this paper is to identify strategies that would …

their nutrition sensitivity at the policy level, using a convergence framework. The three key entry points for agriculture …

country received 2.5 percent growth as a result of spillover. Finally, our results suggest that convergence dynamics is much …

. Although the lack of convergence is well documented, there lingers a substantial gap in articulating what needs to be assessed … to ensure that convergence is indeed happening, or not happening. In an effort to close this gap, in this paper we … describe a possible framework to enable convergence across sectors for action on nutrition. Our framework notes that issues …

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 …