unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …

) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield … much larger reductions in emissions than those that reduce emission intensities by increasing overall productivity because …

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 …

productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in … of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of …

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 paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in … productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a …