, and animal power, government subsidies encouraged the use of fertilizer and machines. Since productivity growth arises … from technical change, Brazil's drive to modernize its agricultural sector should improve agricultural productivity …. However, inefficient production practices arising from subsidies can slow multifactor productivity growth. Recent removal of …

Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation …

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 …

productivity of basic and applied research and education in this field, I construct a structural model composed of a system of …

inequalities in access to land and the governance of the groups, and their gender-differentiated impacts on farmers' productivity …

implications on agricultural productivity in India which, in turn, has a bearing on rural poverty. The present study attempts to … analyse the inter-linkages amongst agricultural research investment, agricultural productivity and poverty at the national … level. The results revealed that rural poverty was significantly and negatively influenced by the agricultural productivity …

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 …