Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …

Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …

--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 …

A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses …-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests …

randomly assigned crop farmers from 24 farming communities in Nigeria. Structured questionnaire, interviews and random farm …

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries--Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil …