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Productivity and the performance of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : from the lost decade to the commodity boom
Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A.; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015
This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at … performance of agriculture was the result of fast growth in the use of fertilizer, increases in land productivity, and growth in … contributed significantly to the improved performance of agriculture. Observed growth patterns at the country level suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473446
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Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity growth by farm size
Helfand, Steven M.; Magalhães, Marcelo; Rada, Nicholas E. - 2015
country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485802
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Long-run structural and productivity change in U.S. agriculture : effects of prices and policies
Evenson, Robert E.; Huffman, Wallace B. - 1997
Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011609053
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Productivity and efficiency in grassland-based livestock production in Latin America : the cases of Uruguay and Paraguay
Nin, Alejandro; Freiría, Heber; Muñoz, Gonzalo - 2019
This study looks at the performance of livestock production in Uruguay and Paraguay, analyzing two situations with different implications for development: the displacement of livestock by soybean production as occurred in Uruguay and in the Eastern region of Paraguay, and the expansion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107009
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Growth in agricultural productivity and its components in Bangladeshi regions (1987-2009) : an application of bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA)
Bagchi, Mita; Rahman, Sanzidur; Yao, Shunbo - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/37, pp. 1-16
The present study applies a bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) procedure to compute bias-corrected measures of agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) change and its components (technical change and technical efficiency change) using a panel data of 19 regions of Bangladesh...
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Agricultural R&D investment, knowledge stocks and productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126263
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Food and agriculture : shifting landscapes for policy
Gollin, Douglas; Probst, Lilli Teresa - In: Oxford review of economic policy 31 (2015) 1, pp. 8-25
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Editors' introduction: The economics of the global food and agriculture system
Adam, Christopher S.; Gollin, Douglas - In: Oxford review of economic policy 31 (2015) 1, pp. 1-7
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Weather shocks and inter-hemispheric supply responses : implications for climate change effects on global food markets
Lybbert, Travis J.; Smith, Aaron D.; Sumner, Daniel A. - In: Climate change economics 5 (2014) 4, pp. 1-11
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Transparency as a way of attaining quality, safety and optimal food purchases
Dove, Martina; Balasubramanian, Adhithya; Narayanan, Badri - In: SocioEconomic challenges : SEC 4 (2020) 4, pp. 48-62
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