Many studies have done econometric estimates of how climate alters crop yields and or land rents in an effort to gain information on potential effects of climate change. However, an important related factor, the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, and in fact a driver of climate...

Increasing agricultural technical productivity is an important means to meet growing future food demands and overcome some of the effects of climate change. In the US total production has increased for more than 100 years due to intensification through increased land productivity and...