Rsing agricultural productivity is central to economic development and has been studied by the historians of many countries. Much has been learned about their separate histories, but long-term, cross-national comparisons remain elusive. Crop yields have received considerable attention,' and progress has been made in understanding their evolution. However, labour productivity is arguably a more ...

this study was conducted based on primary data collected using a questionnaire. a total of 90 respondents among farmers associations were interviewed in kano state of nigeria. therefore, double stage stratified and purposive simple random sampling technique was used to select 30 respondents in each of three (3) farmers associations, one from each of the three (3) agricultural zones of the state...

This paper develops a model of intellectual labor augmentation to explain both the marriage wage premium and educational assortative mating. We suggest that husbands and wives are complementary factors of production where a spouse’s education and skills augment their partner’s productivity and earnings potential. We test this proposition using data from the 2000 U.S. Census of Population and th...

results of an evaluation of the impact of agricultural science and technology (as and t) policy system institutions on efficiency and technical change in kenyan and ugandan agriculture are presented here. data envelopment analysis was used to derive efficiency and technical change and logistic regression applied to delineate as and t institutions that induced efficiency and technical progress. ...

This paper deals with the determinants of labour out-migration from agriculture across 153 EU regions over the 1990-2008 period. The central aim is to shed light on the role played by CAP payments on this important adjustment process. Using static and dynamic panel data methods, we show that standard neo-classic drivers, like the relative income and the relative labour share, represented signif...

The paper deals with the determinants of labour out-migration from agriculture across 149 EU regions over the 1990-2008 period. The central aim is to shed light on the role played by CAP payments on this important adjustment process. Using static and dynamic panel data estimators, we show that standard neo-classic drivers, like the relative income and the relative labour share, represent signif...

Agricultural activity is a key strategic sector for countries, particularly food production. One way to strengthen the through use of technology. However, while integrating new technologies, challenges have emerged in with regard incorporating workers. Thus, one resolve this workforce shortfall could be labour commutation, which consists people living territory but working another. Therefore, s...

Regional convergence is one of the major goals of the European Union. In this paper, the intention is to augment the existing literature on regional convergence across the NUTS-2 regions of EU-27 in terms of agricultural labour productivity during the period 1995-2004. A low annual rate of absolute convergence is estimated for the NUTS-2 regions over the period 1995-2004. The rate of regional c...

Decades of low agricultural sector performance, particularly in land and labour productivity, is recognised as the main reason for the current food and nutrition challenges the continent faces. And yet, the continent’s prospects of addressing these challenges are inextricably linked to whether Africa reverses the negative trend in smallholder agriculture. So, what are the major challenges facin...