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This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture …
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observe a shift in livelihood from agriculture to mining related work. This social change is an indicator of rural development …
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is lower in the agriculture sector than in the rest of the economy. Using a stochastic production frontier finite mixture … stochastic shocks. This decomposition is investigated separately in the agriculture sector and the economy as a whole using a … productivity are driven by capital deepening. However, the results for the agriculture sector suggest that labor productivity …
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Purpose – This paper aims to conduct inter-country analysis of agricultural productivity growth in transition countries in Asia and Europe. This paper pays particular attention to the magnitude and direction of productivity growth over different stages of their market reforms....
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This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...
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A major challenge in addressing climate risk in developing countries is that many regions do not have the necessary historical weather data to design and validate solutions using technologies such as remote sensing. Therefore, many projects are build using farmer's reported perceptions and...
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Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and becoming the country's breadbasket. Now its economy and society are struggling by relative, and sometimes even absolute, measures. Using the original Green Revolution as a...
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This paper presents a case study of the Honey Bee Network fs decentralized model for collecting, verifying and disseminating grassroots innovations and provides a roadmap for its replication in Africa. The Honey Bee Network brings together governmental and non-governmental institutions, members...
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