Improved land-use efficiency in agricultural production is crucial to meet increasing demand for agricultural … temporal dimensions of technical efficiency and land-use efficiency within Chinese crop production. During this period, China … results of this analysis, land-use efficiency increased slightly from 0.47 to 0.56 in most regions of China during that period …

This discussion paper deals with the estimation of a random coefficient model. The virtue of this approach is that it … inefficiency are analyzed. It is shown that despite the fragmentation of Polish agriculture, there is no evidence for scale … Inneffizienz überschätzen. Weiterhin wurden die Ursachen der Ineffizienz untersucht. Obwohl die polnische Landwirtschaft sehr …

linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and poverty reduction. Agriculture plays a significant role in largely agro …

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the … agricultural productivity? We develop a model of heterogeneous farms making cropping choices and investing in productivity … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

This paper applies the Malmquist productivity index method to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth in … Vietnamese agriculture using panel data from 60 provinces in Vietnam during 1985-2000 when Vietnam implemented widespread de …-collectivization, trade liberalization, and reformed her agriculture sector. This study indicates that most of the early growth in Vietnamese …