factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth … traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands …

that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …. In fact, agriculture in most developing countries has very low productivity relative to the rest of the economy … from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people …