-farm enterprises in Malawi, we examine the impact of risk on the allocation decisions of agricultural households as they allocate labor … farm production being riskier than non-farm production for most households in Malawi. These findings suggest that improved …

-import dependency through promoting agriculture production, exports and consequently reduced trade deficits in the long run. Hence … agriculture production, exports and consequently reduced trade deficits in the long run. Hence, governance reforms in the region …

assess the sector's productivity gain over time. However, the regional analysis of agricultural productivity still is not … investigated. This work focuses on mapping the gain of agricultural productivity in Brazil in the years 1990-2012 by micro …-region. After an overview of the behavior of productivity in the major regions, will be studied the ten major crops relative to the …

of agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) change and its components (technical change and technical efficiency … productivity grew at a modest rate of 0.03%, mainly powered by technological progress at 0.03% and a negligible decline in … either progress or regress in productivity performance over time. Investments in research and development (R&D), agricultural …

Economic development is characterised by the fact that the share of agriculture tends to decrease both in terms of … resources used and domestic product generated. This does not mean, however, that the role of agriculture in the economic … development diminishes. It can be considered a paradox that the lower the share of agriculture in the national economy, the …