Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …

are much larger and more specialized, supplying a much-evolved market for farm products. Over recent decades, the global … landscape for agricultural R&D has shifted away from farms, away from the public sector toward the private sector, and away from ….S. investments in agricultural R&D are stalling even though meta-evidence shows that past U.S. investments in agricultural R&D have …

Agricultural productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been a qualified success. Total factor productivity growth … and the rise in agricultural productivity. The case study of Ghana clearly reflects these broader findings … of TFP growth subsequent to independence in the early 1960s. Average agricultural TFP growth for sub-Saharan Africa was 0 …

The achievements in agricultural innovation over the past century have been impressive, supporting large increases in … agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a … operate as well as concentration in the agricultural biotechnology industry also emerged due to intellectual property rights …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

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 …

diversity on agricultural productivity in South Africa /Cecilia Bellora, Élodie Blanc, Jean-Marc Bourgeon, and Eric Strobl … --Crop disease and agricultural productivity: evidence from a dynamic structural model of verticillium wilt management … /Jayson L. Lusk, Jesse Tack, and Nathan P. Hendricks --Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on US agricultural …

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or … constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity … geographic regions, we find that low agricultural productivity in poor countries is not due to poor land endowments. If countries …

This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict … the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permanent improvements in agricultural productivity, we exploit the …

finding from detailed micro data is that land rentals significantly reduce misallocation and increase agricultural … productivity. These effects are nonlinear across farms--impacting more those farms farther away from their efficient operational … scale. The effect of land rentals on productivity is 70 percent larger when controlling for non-market rentals--those with a …