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 …

We revisit the long-standing empirical evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity using … in the literature, but positively related to farm productivity (a farm-specific component of total factor productivity … evaluating the role of farm-specific distortions. Our findings point to the limited value of yields (or land productivity) in …

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among … smallholder farmers. Applying standard regression-based approaches to measuring productivity residuals, we find much larger …

by crop for small spatial units. Crucially, this dataset contains information about the productivity of all units for all … in magnitude to those due to productivity improvements over that same period …

complementarities between these two risk management technologies can be harnessed to underwrite a resilient, high productivity small … control villages, where shocks have persistent effects that reduce future investment and productivity, those with access to …