smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …

farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda. We find that while supply of improved seeds through local, BRAC trained …

connect smallholders with modern agriculture and achieve food security in China. Using household-level data from China, this … study examines the impact of hiring machinery services on farm productivity, food security, and rural households' welfare …. Findings show that mechanization services increased rural Chinese families' food security and agricultural productivity. Hiring …

and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to …

productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural … productivity. We use two different agricultural production measures: (i) the agricultural component of GDP and (ii) agricultural … labor productivity. Employing a combination of panel-data and instrumental- variable methods, we show that agricultural …

induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …