in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest … 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 …

some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on …

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 …

of agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) change and its components (technical change and technical efficiency … productivity grew at a modest rate of 0.03%, mainly powered by technological progress at 0.03% and a negligible decline in … either progress or regress in productivity performance over time. Investments in research and development (R&D), agricultural …