Unprecedented challenges to agriculture — including population growth, climate change, energy scarcity, natural resources degradation and market globalization — underscore the need to rethink policies and institutions for crop production intensification. Models used for intensification in...

The financial surplus of agriculture has been central to theories of the role of agriculture in economic development. Morrisson and Thorbecke (MT) have used a constant‐price social accounting matrix (SAM) framework to measure rigorously the financial surplus of agriculture and decompose the...