Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship … between productivity, farm typology and farm size. EUROSTAT and European Commission statistics based on FADN survey from the … correlated with labour productivity. Improving the efficiency of production factors should contribute to reducing the disparities …

mechanization on use of household and hired labor. Finally, agricultural mechanization significantly raises the productivity of …

A consistent finding in the development literature is that average non-farm labor productivity is higher than average … farm labor productivity. These differences in average productivity are sometimes used to promote policies which advance the … non-farm sector. In this paper, we analyze the importance of two specification choices when comparing productivity gaps …

agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … selection as a root cause of the agricultural productivity gap. …

interventions impact upon the livelihood and productivity outcomes of rural smallholder farmers in Nigeria using a case study from … that although participating households had better livelihood and productivity outcomes and more diversified income … agents to sustain positive livelihood and productivity outcomes. In addition agricultural innovation system concepts should …

Cross-country labor productivity differences are larger in agriculture than in non-agriculture. We propose a new … explanation for these patterns in which the self-selection of heterogeneous workers determines sector productivity. We formalize … agriculture sector in poor countries. When parameterized, the model predicts that agriculture productivity differences are twice …