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Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya
Bird, Samuel S. - 2020
an under-serviced equilibrium. To study the empirical veracity of this model, we study the disruption of the maize seed … capital allowed a local seed company to expand and target a niche agro-ecological zone with adaptively-bred maize varieties. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481184
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Weather, Climate, and Technology Adoption : An Application to Drought-Tolerant Corn in the United States
McFadden, Jonathan R.; Smith, David; Wallander, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Crop farmers have few short-run options for reducing downside production risk from changes in drought frequency and intensity due to ongoing climate change. However, one recently available option is drought-tolerant (DT) varieties. We determine how recent drought exposure, drought risk, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334340
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Environmental Drivers of Agricultural Productivity Growth : CO2 Fertilization of US Field Crops
Taylor, Charles A.; Schlenker, Wolfram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We assess the CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization effect on US agriculture using spatially-varying CO<sub>2</sub> data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite covering the majority of US cropland under actual growing conditions. This study complements the many CO<sub>2</sub> enrichment experiments that have found...
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Adaptation to Environmental Change : Agriculture and the Unexpected Incidence of the Acid Rain Program
Sanders, Nicholas J.; Barreca, Alan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Acid Rain Program (ARP) cut sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions from power plants in the United States, with considerable benefits. We show this also reduced ambient sulfate levels, which lowered agriculture productivity through decreased soil sulfur. Using plant-level SO2 emissions and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496145
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Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture
Boucher, Stephen; Carter, Michael R.; Flatnes, Jon Einar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
weather shocks, we find that drought tolerant maize seeds mitigate the impact of mid-season drought. Compared to farms in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629454
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Can Smallholder Extension Transform African Agriculture?
Deutschmann, Joshua W. - 2019
economically significant increases in output, yields, and profits. In our preferred specification, maize production increases by 24 …
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Henry Agard Wallace, the Iowa Corn Yield Tests, and the Adoption of Hybrid Corn
Sutch, Richard C. - 2008
2] The early adoption of hybrid corn before 1937 can be better explained by a sustained propaganda campaign conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Agard Wallace. The Department's campaign echoed that of the commercial seed...
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Financial Accelerator at Work : Evidence from Corn Fields
Bergman, Nittai K. - 2015
This paper tests financial accelerator models. Using a novel dataset on agricultural production, we examine how exogenous productivity shocks arising from variation in temperature are propagated into the future. We find that past weather shocks have persistent effects on land values and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457580
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The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution : Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level
Foltz, Jeremy D. - 2012
Since independence a quiet revolution has taken place in maize production in the Sahel with Mali increasing production … more than ten-fold and yields going up ~2% a year. This research work uses farm level panel data from southern Mali's maize … fertilizer amounts and the marginal returns to fertilizer use. The results demonstrate the key changes behind this silent maize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460857
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Nutrient Pollution and U.S. Agriculture : Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change
Metaxoglou, Konstantinos; Smith, Aaron D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the relationship between water nutrient pollution and U.S. agriculture using data between the early 1970s and late 2010s. We estimate a positive causal effect of corn acreage on nitrogen concentration in the country's water bodies using alternative empirical approaches. We find that a...
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