"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for … increase in agricultural productivity and reduction in poverty rate." from authors' abstract …

This 2013 Global Food Policy Report is the third in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food … policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food and nutrition security, the series offers … a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in achieving food and …

There is widespread agreement that our ability to deliver sustainable food security for all will be challenged in three … dimensions—population growth, constrained natural resources, and climate change. Investments in agricultural productivity are … institutions has some of the expertise badly needed to assess the coming food security challenges, so cooperation should extend to …

870 million people going hungry, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations … communities; for country-level policymakers in food-insecure countries; and for development and humanitarian practitioners. …

still “serious,†with 805 million people continuing to go hungry, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture …

still “serious,†with 805 million people continuing to go hungry, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture …