Achieving Regional Growth Dynamics in African Agriculture

Policies and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture

Impact Pathway Evaluation: An Approach for Achieving and Attributing Impact in African Agriculture

Agricultural development is fundamentally a social process, in which people construct solutions to their problems. In the development process users are modifying technologies and at the same time modifying their own systems to accommodate the technologies. These adaptations affect adoption rates and who benefits and loses. Hence, it follows that agricultural change is an immensely complex proce...

Multifunctional Agriculture: an Engine of Regional Economic Growth?

The historical role of agriculture in economic geography and recent conceptual developments – including multifunctional agriculture (MFA), the new economic geography, amenity-driven growth, and the “world is flat” and “creative class” hypotheses – are examined, and recent empirical research in North America and Europe is reviewed, in order to assess the potential for MFA as an engine of regiona...

Risks Management in African Agriculture

Regional Development in American Agriculture ∗

This paper uses the establishment of federal agricultural experiment stations to provide new evidence on the effects of university research on long-term regional development. Our analysis of county-level agricultural census data from 1870 to 2000 reveals that station establishment increased local crop revenue per acre for 30-40 years, but localization effects do not persist to the present day. ...