geo-climatic suitability of the environment for growing crops that differentially benefited from the adoption of the …

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 …

In this paper we show that the study of the farm size-productivity relationship hinges on the choice of productivity … measure. Our main insight is that using yields, a partial measure of productivity, may not be informative for the size-productivity … relationship because, in addition to total factor productivity, yields pick up input markets distortions and deviations from …

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among … smallholder farmers. Applying standard regression-based approaches to measuring productivity residuals, we find much larger …

We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … higher adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds and other complementary inputs, as well as higher increase in … agricultural productivity. Our estimates indicate that information frictions can explain around 25 percent of the agricultural …

The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively …. Our revised estimates of Parker and Klein's productivity calculations indicate that biological innovations account for … roughly one-half of labor productivity growth between 1839 and 1909 …

innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations—let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and livestock …