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Institutions, reform policies and productivity growth in agriculture : evidence from former communist countries
Rizov, Marian - 2008
institutions, reforms and (labour) productivity growth in agriculture is analysed within an augmented neo-classical growth model …’ agriculture. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119704
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Productivity and efficiency in grassland-based livestock production in Latin America : the cases of Uruguay and Paraguay
Nin, Alejandro; Freiría, Heber; Muñoz, Gonzalo - 2019
This study looks at the performance of livestock production in Uruguay and Paraguay, analyzing two situations with different implications for development: the displacement of livestock by soybean production as occurred in Uruguay and in the Eastern region of Paraguay, and the expansion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107009
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Impacts of droughts and floods on agricultural productivity in New Zealand as measured from space
Blanc, Elodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093054
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The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia
Castañeda Dower, Paul - 2018
We study the effect of changes in land tenure, launched by the 1906 Stolypin reform, on agricultural productivity in late Imperial Russia. The reform allowed peasants to obtain land titles and consolidate separated land strips into single allotments. Our estimations suggest that the net effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938198
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Insecure Land Tenure, Social Protection, and Resource Misallocation : Evidence from China's Agricultural Sector
Ma, Meilin - 2020
Smallholder farmers usually face insecure land rights and limited social protection, so that farmland serves as an important safety net against income shocks. Safety-net value of farmland makes the loss of land rights extra costly and strengthens the well-documented incentive for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825449
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Regional cooperation for improving agriculture production efficiency : a strategic tool for emission reduction
Zaman, Kazi Arif Uz - 2022
the inefficiencies of economic units. Using 2010-2016 panel data on agriculture production and five inputs-land, labor …, capital, fertilizer, and energy-this paper estimates the agriculture production efficiencies of the countries under five Asian … subregions. Estimations reveal that West Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and Central Asia have agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803213
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Agricultural Productivity and Forest Conservation : Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Koch, Nicolas - 2018
understood, though evidence is sorely needed given the economic importance of agriculture in Brazil and many other forest …-rich countries. We construct a ten-year panel dataset for agriculture and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (2004-2014), and use …, dairy, and crop production. We find no evidence for trade-offs between agriculture and forest conservation. Rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932941
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Typhoon and agricultural production portfolio : empirical evidence for a developing economy
Thi Xuyen Tran - 2021
In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544516
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Are small farms really more productive than large farms?
Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2021
This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665044
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Impacts of agricultural policies on productivity and sustainability performance in agriculture : a literature review
DeBoe, Gwendolen - 2020
of the agriculture sector, including the potentially contradictory signals policies may send. It considers impacts for … impacts of land use choice. Beyond this, policies can also affect agriculture’s environmental performance by stimulating (or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249040