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 …

agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …

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 …

evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through … tightening constraints on water, arable land, and other natural resources, agricultural innovation is quickly becoming the most … universities, which, historically, have been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly dependent on funding from …

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and …

This chapter investigates the extent to which agricultural innovations draw on ideas originating outside of agriculture … knowledge flows originate outside of agriculture. The majority of these knowledge inflows, however, still originate in domains … that are close to agriculture …

Introduction /Petra Moser --The roots of agricultural innovation : patent evidence of knowledge spillovers /Matthew … Meyers, Paul W. Rhode --Comment /Michael J. Roberts --Local effects of land grant colleges on agricultural innovation and … --Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …

The achievements in agricultural innovation over the past century have been impressive, supporting large increases in …. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …