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The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the reallocation process is hindered in less developed economies. How do distortions to factor reallocation affect farm dynamics and agricultural productivity? We develop a model of...
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Increased global demand for biofuels is placing increased pressure on agricultural systems at a time when traditional sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically...
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--Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and …
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Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of …
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While many developing-country policymakers see heavy fertilizer subsidies as critical to raising agricultural productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in politicized, inefficient distribution of fertilizer supply. We...
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Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact …
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estimates. This paper incorporates climate uncertainty into estimates of climate change impacts on U.S. agriculture. Accounting … interval featuring drops of between 17% to 88%. An application to African agriculture yields similar results …
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