investigate how organic cultivation techniques contribute to productivity of non-subsidized local maize and what to expect from … techniques for estimating impacts. Productivity of local maize-bean, local maize-groundnut and local maize-nkhwana, each combined … with livestock and chemical fertilizer, is shown to be statistically similar to productivity of fertilized maize mono …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

Total Factor Productivity (TFP)is often used on the macro-economic level as an indicator of changes in efficiency of a … Productivity of Mongolia was tested not only for errors in all estimated values but also for measurement errors in the data. It was …

In the search for effective pesticide risk management tools, the design of pesticide risk indicators is nowadays … recently developed pesticide risk indices and test their potential for management purposes. A pilot approach is proposed, which … explores pesticide worst-case hazard scenarios at different space-time scales by means of a set of 5 ecotoxicological risk …

Pesticide use in agriculture poses several risks to both human health and non-target agro-ecosystems. Due to lack of … information on the monetary value of reducing pesticide risks, it is difficult to perform an economic analysis that addresses … to present a critical overview of the empirical literature on pesticide risk valuation that provides disaggregate …

neighbouring island and the mainland of Denmark. We analyse the effect of the opening of the bridge on the productivity of firms … throughout the country using a two-step approach: we estimate firm- and year-specific productivity for a large panel of …-fixed effects, we relate productivity to a calculated measure of accessibility that captures the effect of the opening of the bridge …