Diversified agriculture for higher productivity and profitability–A review

PRODUCTIVITY IN IRISH AgRICULTURE

While detailed analysis of the productivity of many sectors of the Irish economy are not possible because of a lack of data, the quality and volume of data on agricultural outputs and inputs allows such an analysis. In this chapter, a picture of the productivity performance of the Irish agriculture sector based on various different measures is presented and compared with the performance of Irel...

A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems

Policies and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture

Increasing productivity and efficiency in agriculture.

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A paradigm shift from industrial agriculture to diversified agroecological systems

Today's food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread degradation of land, water and ecosystems; high GHG emissions; biodiversity losses; persistent hunger and micro-nutrient deficiencies alongside the rapid rise of obesity and diet-related diseases; and livelihood stresses for f...