inverse productivity relationship in Rwanda, where policy makers consider land fragmentation and small farm sizes to be key …Whether the negative relationship between farm size and productivity that is confirmed in a large global literature … bottlenecks for the growth of the agricultural sector. Nationwide plot-level data from Rwanda point toward a constant returns to …

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 … village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of …

This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented … activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on …

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 …

Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … 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 …

costs in 2010/11 data from Rwanda. While fragmentation increases the time required to move between a household?s parcels … shocks and increases yields and productive efficiency. In Rwanda?s setting, interventions to reduce fragmentation may …

participation in low-return farm wage labor more likely. Even within agriculture, elimination of all types of credit constraints in …

regional agricultural productivity to changes in water salinity. To do so, it utilizes several local and global data sets on … water quality and agricultural productivity and a model that isolates the impact of exogenous changes in water salinity on …

Agriculture remains an important economic sector in Africa, employing a large share of the labor force and earning …