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Change in crop management strategies could double the maize yield in Africa

Rezaei, Ehsan Eyshi; Gaiser, Thomas - 2017

Change in cropping practices is required to address the food security issues in Africa. Yet, testing of the performance of such changes, in particular at large scales, often needs significant investments. Crop models are widely used tools to quantify the effects of agronomic decisions on...

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Agricultural productivity shocks and poverty in India : the short- and long-term effects of monsoon rainfall

Brey, Björn; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2019

This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension (local/regional). We find that particularly negative...

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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture : case of rice and sugarcane

Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018

irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the allocated water are major reasons behind this paradox. Water guzzler … crops like rice and sugarcane, occupying about one-fourth of the gross cropped area, consume more than 60 per cent of … and profitability) of at least these two crops needs to be studied thoroughly to see how best higher productivity and …

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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India

Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020

of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … yields - rice yields are reduced by rainfall extremes whereas extremely high temperatures make yields of all three crops …

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Crop Selection and International Differences in Aggregate Agricultural Productivity

Alvarez, Jorge - 2019

A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...

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Transgenic Crops, Production Risk, and Agrobiodiversity

Krishna, Vijesh V.; Qaim, Matin; Zilberman, David - 2015

Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce …

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Institutions and Global Crop Yields

Wuepper, David; Wang, Haoyu; Schlenker, Wolfram; Jain, Meha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...

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Agricultural development and sustainable intensification : technology and policy challenges in the face of climate change

Nagothu, Udaya Sekhar (ed.) - 2018

Agricultural development and sustainable intensification: technology and policy innovations / Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Esther Bloem and Andrew Borrell -- Save and grow: translating policy advice into field action for sustainable intensification of rice production / Jan Willem Ketelaar, Alma Linda...

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Agricultural yield and conflict

Ang, James B.; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 92 (2018), pp. 397-417

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Winter is coming : the long-run effects of climate change on conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat; Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - 2017

This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...

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