Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … innovations that reduce the susceptibility of agricultural production to these uncontrolled factors. These features of agriculture …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …

performance of agriculture was the result of fast growth in the use of fertilizer, increases in land productivity, and growth in …This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at … the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting …

potential employment generation. Brazil offers an interesting case study because of its wide spectrum of farm sizes and the … country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture … in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest …

output and productivity between 2002 and 2006 as the result of rapid growth in beef and milk production and a reduction of … than doubled between 2005 and 2016, driven by productivity growth which increased by 70 percent during this period. The … factors behind increased productivity. Despite these positive developments, livestock sectors in Uruguay and Paraguay still …