Increasing farm technical efficiency in developing countries is essential to raise farm productivity, and cropland …

Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment …

rental arrangements -- such as sharecropping -- with an inquiry into the broader productivity impacts of the land rental … to more productive producers but realization of this productivity advantage is prevented by the inefficiency of …

rental arrangements -- such as sharecropping -- with an inquiry into the broader productivity impacts of the land rental … to more productive producers but realization of this productivity advantage is prevented by the inefficiency of …

-tenants can receive different levels of supervision and have different productivity. Unique data on monitoring frequency collected …

evidence on the productivity and equity impacts of such markets and the extent to which they realize their potential has been … on households' economic strategies and welfare, and the productivity of land use at the plot level. Although there are … a rough estimate of the productivity and equity impacts of removing them. …

-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical … rentals have substantial positive effects on agricultural productivity: an efficient reallocation of land increases … agricultural productivity by 38 percent on average and by more than 50 percent in states with highly distorted rental markets. Both …