Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2017 - This version: May 2017
We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth …-2010 data on world GDP, population, cropland and technological progress. Introducing random shocks to the evolution of total … factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …