protection policies and trade relations with the EU and productivity dynamics and their determinants. Secondly, it presents four … scenarios based on the main value chains of the agriculture sector of Med 11: animal products, fruits and vegetables, sugar and …

We use new data on the timing of the transition to agriculture, developed by Putterman and Trainor (2006), to test the …). The factors conducive to high per capita incomes today are good institutions, an early transition to agriculture, access …

Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …

global agriculture. The analysis uses the new version of the GTAP-W model, which distinguishes between rainfed and irrigated … agriculture and implements water as an explicit factor of production for irrigated agriculture. The results suggest that a partial … analysis of the main factors through which climate change will affect agricultural productivity lead to different outcomes. Our …

temperature increase in the relevant year and with a crop-growth model estimating climate change impact on cereal productivity …. The main results of the study point out on the one hand the limited influence of climate change on world food supply and …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India …

narrative are examined and its central contentions - that features including low productivity and limited employment generation …

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant … attainment, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on agricultural productivity which is robust …

affected the productivity and welfare of wheat farmers in China for a dataset that covers all the major rural reforms … which led to a faster growth of the incentive component of productivity. Due to random weather shocks this response did not …