Revisiting African Agriculture: Institutional Change and Productivity Growth

Policies and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture

Climate change risks for African agriculture.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment of major risks for African agriculture and food security caused by climate change during coming decades is confirmed by a review of more recent climate change impact assessments (14 quantitative, six qualitative). Projected impacts relative to current production levels range from -100% to +168% in econometric, from -84% to +62% in ...

Essays on productivity growth in agriculture

Baldos, Uris Lantz Caldo. Ph.D. Purdue University, December 2014. Essays on Productivity Growth in Agriculture. Major Professor: Dr. Thomas W. Hertel This dissertation aims to explore the current trends in agricultural productivity and analyse its impact on the global farm and food system. Chapter 2 in this dissertation looks at the current trends in agricultural productivity in India – one mos...

Strategic Behavior, Institutional Change and the Future of Agriculture

Policy reforms increasing the roles of markets in agriculture and related institutional changes are occurring worldwide. These are accompanied by and related to rapid technical change, especially for information systems, biotechnology, and organizational mechanisms. Trends in farm size, integration, concentration, environmental sensitivity, organization and funding of research and development, ...

Structural and productivity change in US agriculture , 1950 – 1982

This paper tests whether structural change in US agriculture is an important channel to TFP growth and evaluates the relative impact of (i) public research and education policies, (ii) private R&D and market forces, and (iii) government farm programs on structural change. We specify a structural econometric model, fit it to US state aggregate data, 1953–1982, and use the associated reduced-form...