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Global and Local Implications of Biotechnology and Climate Change for Future Food Supplies.

Evenson, R.E. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2001

This paper provides a basis for both the base case projections and an important policy simulation dealing with the diffusion of biotechlogy to developing countries

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Study of Agricultural Productivity and Its Convergence across China's Regions

Li, Guoping; Zeng, Xianfeng; Zhang, Lizhen - In: The Review of Regional Studies 38 (2008) 3, pp. 361-79

during the study period. Thus, it was technological progress that boosted the TFP growth in china's agriculture. Tests also …

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Latin America

Maletta, Hector E.; Maletta, Emiliano - 2014

climate change on agriculture are discussed based on two main approaches: Ricardian Models and Integrated Assessment Models … discusses several policy options to minimize negative impacts (and enhance positive impacts) of climate change on agriculture …

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Productivity Growth, Technology Progress, and Efficiency Change in Chinese Agricultural Production from 1984 to 1993

Koo, Won W.; Mao, Weining - 1997

This study applies a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach to analyze total factor productivity, technology, and efficiency changes in Chinese agricultural production from 1984 to 1993. Twenty-nine provinces in China were classified into advanced-technology and low-technology categories. The...

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Colombian Agricultural Transformation During 1990-2002

Balcazar, Alvaro - 2015

The Colombian agrarian sector suffered a significant transformation of its structure of production during the nineties. A whole range of crops and productive activities that were supported in previous decades by commercial protection policies and different types of subsidies collapsed, while...

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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies

Evenson, R.E.; Huffman, W.B. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

(2) an econometrics of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for U.S. agriculture. Farm size …

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Biofuels and the Future of Food: Competition and Complementarities

Tokgoz, Simla; Zhang, Wei; Msangi, Siwa; Bhandary, Prapti - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 4, pp. 414-435

In this paper, we draw the key linkages between future biofuels growth on agricultural commodity prices, and highlight some of the key uncertainties over OECD fuel and energy policies, and their implications for global agricultural markets and the world food situation. Our results show some of...

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Managing Soil Erosion in Northern Ireland: A Review of Past and Present Approaches

Mullan, Donal - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 4, pp. 684-699

In recent decades, the off-site transport of sediment and nutrients from agricultural land into the neighbouring natural and built environment has become a more pressing environmental sustainability issue than the on-site threats of soil erosion in many of the world’s temperate regions. In the...

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Farms versus firms in economic development : the assumptions and consequences of learning dynamics in agriculture and mnufacturing

Srinivas, Smita; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2015

-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its crossover supplier segments with manufacturing. The sections analyze … manufacturing bias; demand's effects; and differences in the technological process and links between agriculture and manufacturing …. An evolutionary approach has potential for understanding both manufacturing as well as agriculture, but should be more …

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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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