This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of … farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and … structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …

institutions, reforms and (labour) productivity growth in agriculture is analysed within an augmented neo-classical growth model … democratic institutions, have positively contributed to the (labour) productivity growth in former communist countries …’ agriculture. …

This report reviews the evidence base on how agricultural policies impact environmental sustainability and productivity … of the agriculture sector, including the potentially contradictory signals policies may send. It considers impacts for … impacts of land use choice. Beyond this, policies can also affect agriculture’s environmental performance by stimulating (or …

have affected progress in the agriculture sector suggests the need for concerted reorientation in existing strategies … of agriculture in Mozambique within a long-term perspective, focusing on the adoption and stabilization of an … institutional framework aimed at increasing agricultural productivity and preserving the environment. …

productivity and the production of foodstuffs. The second part offers an analysis on the extent to which, and the way that, the … productivity, which could reflect a wider socioeconomic and institutional environment, i.e. beyond the agricultural sector. The … development of the agricultural sector. We refer to the need to think about the future of agriculture in Mozambique from a long …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …