In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder … farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo … between productivity and scale to use surveys with a narrow geographic reach, when policy would be better served with studies …

agricultural productivity in structural transformation in the labor market. The empirical work is based on a general equilibrium … elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to … significant positive effect of agricultural productivity on rice yield and agricultural wages. Productivity shock increases wages …

improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long …-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i) most estates are less productive than smallholders; (ii) fear of land … loss, although not exclusively due to estates, is associated with a 12 percent productivity loss for females, which is …

productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of … agricultural productivity growth on growth of informal (small-scale) manufacturing and skilled services employment, mainly in …

This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on … agricultural productivity, and using subdistrict level panel data from Bangladesh, this paper finds significant positive effects of …

dataset on the productivity in agriculture substantially changes the conclusions compared to earlier analysis of the same … dataset on the productivity in agriculture substantially changes the conclusions compared to earlier analysis of the same …

This study estimates and compares the effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland productivity in South … although large dams increase cropland productivity downstream, they have a negative effect on cropland within the vicinity …

rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of … productivity (at about 30 percent each), mainly by encouraging market-based land transfers. A sustained increase in non …