The objective of this paper is to review likely trends in key drivers of productivity with a view to suggesting the … rate of productivity growth that is likely to be required to maintain the competitiveness of Australian agriculture both … for achieving this level of productivity performance over the period to 2030.Growth in agricultural productivity has …

Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in New Zealand and Australian … public investment in R&D and in productivity growth are reviewed. Investment in R&D has been flat in both countries although … significantly higher than that in New Zealand. Productivity growth is also likely to have been higher. Econometric evidence about …

Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in New Zealand and Australian … public investment in R&D and in productivity growth are reviewed. Investment in R&D has been flat in both countries although … significantly higher than that in New Zealand. Productivity growth is also likely to have been higher. Econometric evidence about …

climate variability and volatile commodity prices over the last decade or so. Relationships between productivity and …. Components of farm productivity and profitability are measured over the period 1998 to 2008. Economies of scale and scope are … shown often to be positive contributors to productivity and profitability. However, the main finding is that technical …

Numerous methods for measuring multifactor productivity have been used by economists. This report uses a recently … developed approach, data envlopment analysis, to measure productivity. This method can be used not only to calculate … productivity but also to divide productivity measures into indices that measure technical efficiency and technical change …

it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation is stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty. Improved … productivity in Kenya, using Propensity Score Matching technique. It finds that participation in ICT-based MIS project has a …

productivity. This necessited this study on innovation adoption, farm productivity and poverty status of rural smallholder farm … households in South-Eastern Nigeria. This was premised on the fact that increasing agricultural productivity can increase food … and positive impact on farm productivity. Also, the study revealed improved livelihood or better welfare for innovation …