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 …

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 …

about 1,600 households of 10 villages in the Kisumu region of Western Kenya. We find evidence that MMT, likely through …

Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on agricultural …-existent. We randomly allocate subsidies for agricultural rentals in Kenya and study who selects into land markets, what renters do …

ethnic fragmentation as a main driver of political and social friction in Africa, the paper further details the construction …

not at all for the least developed country (Tanzania). Moreover, the breakdown in correct remuneration in the two least …

country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …

Africa. Crop agriculture has expanded considerably across the continent in recent years. Much of this expansion has occurred … on agricultural development projects across Africa from 1995-2014. We find that implementing agricultural projects in … pastoral groups have more political power. Despite these effects on conflict, we find that crop agriculture projects increase …

At roughly 4% per annum, labor productivity in Tanzania has grown more rapidly over the past 12 years than at any other …-agricultural employment growth has occurred in the informal sector. Using Tanzania's first nationally representative survey of micro, small … economy-wide labor productivity growth in Tanzania between 2002 and 2012. However, virtually all of the labor productivity …