agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a … decentralized and competitive research system in the US. Recent intellectual property reforms motivated increased private investment …. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

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 … yielded very favorable returns: median reported benefit-cost ratios in the range of 12:1. Sustained U.S. investment and …

evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through … economic analyses of the sources of agricultural innovation, the challenges of measuring productivity, the role of universities …

Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in …). Accounting for individual fixed effects leads to much smaller estimated productivity gains from moving into the nonagricultural … fixed effects are included. Estimated productivity gaps do not emerge up to five years after a move between sectors. We …

increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … revolution and point to the importance of taking into account farmer heterogeneity in estimating productivity and returns to …

Agricultural productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been a qualified success. Total factor productivity growth … and the rise in agricultural productivity. The case study of Ghana clearly reflects these broader findings …