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 …

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 …

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

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

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 …

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 …

for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated …