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Author : Reuben William Hecht,Glen T. Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UCAL:B4869210
Author : Reuben William Hecht,Glen Thomas Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UIUC:30112087139710
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1518 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN : MINN:31951T00093181C
Author : Ralph Arthur Loomis,Glen T. Barton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : UVA:X030348588
Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : MINN:31951D032501164
Author : Keith Fuglie,Madhur Gautam,Aparajita Goyal,William F. Maloney
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464814297
Back cover blurb Rising agricultural productivity has driven improvements in living standards for millennia. Today, redoubling that effort in developing countries is critical to reducing extreme poverty, ensuring food security for an increasing global population, and adapting to changes in climate. This volume presents fresh analysis on global trends and sources of productivity growth in agriculture and offers new perspectives on the drivers of that growth. It argues that gains from the reallocation of land and labor are not as promising as believed, so policy needs to focus more on the generation and dissemination of new technologies, which requires stepping up national research efforts. Yet, in many of the poorest nations, a serious research spending gap has emerged precisely at the time when the challenges faced by agriculture are intensifying. The book focuses on how this problem can be redressed in the public sector, as well as on reforms aimed at mobilizing new private sector actors and value chains, particularly creating a better enabling environment, reforming trade regulations, introducing new products, and strengthening intellectual property rights. On the demand side, the book examines what recent research reveals about policies to reduce the barriers impeding smallholder farmers from adopting new technologies. Harvesting Prosperity is the fourth volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers. “As rightly argued by the authors, growth in agricultural productivity is the essential instrument to promote development in low-income agriculture-based countries. Achieving this requires research and development, upgrading of universities, reinforcement of farmer capacities, removal of constraints to adoption, and the development of inclusive value chains with interlinked contracts. As important, such efforts also need to be placed within a context of comprehensive agricultural, rural, and structural transformations. However, in many countries implementation of the requisite policies has been lagging. This book, with contributions from many top experts in the field, provides the most up-to-date presentation of this argument and explains in detail how to successfully put its ideas into practice. Governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations need to study it carefully to turn the promise of agriculture for development into a reality.“ Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet Professors of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley
Author : L. Auer
Publisher : Queen's Printer
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005727842
From the Introduction: The objectives of this study are to determine the productivity levels and trends of Canadian agriculture and examine how they compare with levels and trends of U.S. agriculture; how labour, capital and technology contribute to gains in productivity in both countries and how further gains can be achieved.
Author : Martin, Will
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Agricultural development is crucial in developing countries, and particularly in the poorest countries where it accounts for large shares of employment and income and whose poverty is due simply to having a large share of the workforce in low-productivity agriculture. Raising productivity in agriculture is critically important for development, as is smoothly moving workers out of agriculture into more productive employment in other sectors. Raising agricultural productivity helps both to raise incomes and to reduce poverty-both by raising the incomes of poor people working in agriculture and by lowering the prices of foods that make up a disproportionately large share of the expenditures of poor people. In small and open economies, the in-crease in profitability of agriculture following improvements in productivity might tend to retain or even attract workers into agriculture. By contrast, at a global level, or at national level when policy focusses on self-sufficiency, improvements in agricultural productivity will free up labor for employment in other sectors. Incomes are generally much higher in non-agricultural work in developing countries-more than double those in agriculture after careful adjustment for key differences. This raises the possibility of a double dividend from structural transformation as workers move into higher-productivity activities. A key question for development policy is whether it is enough to simply evaluate the gains from higher productivity within agriculture, or whether potential benefits from structural change be included as well. This paper examines the arguments on this question. It concludes that these dividends may be substantial-but whether they are or not depends on the source of the initial differences in productivity and on the direction of movement when agricultural productivity rises. If it results from policy barriers such as restrictions on the transfer of farmland or requirements for residence permits in urban areas, there are likely to be substantial welfare gains when labor moves out of agriculture. They may also be substantial if urban wages are artificially high and attract substantial numbers of job-waiters into unemployment. However, these gains may be illusory if the income gaps arise primarily from differences in skills or from reluctance to move created by asset fixity.
Author : Wolfram Schlenker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226619804
Agricultural yields have increased steadily in the last half century, particularly since the Green Revolution. At the same time, inflation-adjusted agricultural commodity prices have been trending downward as increases in supply outpace the growth of demand. Recent severe weather events, biofuel mandates, and a switch toward a more meat-heavy diet in emerging economies have nevertheless boosted commodity prices. Whether this is a temporary jump or the beginning of a longer-term trend is an open question. Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior examines the factors contributing to the remarkably steady increase in global yields and assesses whether yield growth can continue. This research also considers whether agricultural productivity growth has been, and will be, associated with significant environmental externalities. Among the topics studied are genetically modified crops; changing climatic factors; farm production responses to government regulations including crop insurance, transport subsidies, and electricity subsidies for groundwater extraction; and the role of specific farm practices such as crop diversification, disease management, and water-saving methods. This research provides new evidence that technological as well as policy choices influence agricultural productivity.
Author : Mary W. Kiiru Mathenge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : MSU:31293029568163
Author : William Orrin Robinson,R. R. Whetstone,Glen Edgington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Soils
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019612535
Author : Louis Jay Ducoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Agricultural wages
ISBN : UIUC:30112072405548
Author : Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Niger is a landlocked Sahelian country, two-thirds of which is in the Sahara desert, with only one-eighth of the land considered arable. Nevertheless, more than 90 percent of Niger’s labor force is employed in agriculture, which is predominantly subsistence oriented. Since the great famines of the 1970s and 1980s, the country has pursued agrarian intensification through technological change to address challenges to the food security situation. However, this approach has failed to recognize that the main characteristic of the Sahelian part of West Africa is the intricate complexity of the social, environmental, and economic dimensions that differentially affect male and female rural dwellers. One example is the patrilineal tenure system, which under increased population pressure has led to the exclusion of women and youth from agriculture in some areas. The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) indicates that access to land is one important dimension of empowerment. In order to assess the role of empowerment in agricultural production, we use new household- and individual-level WEAI data from Niger and regression analysis. Our results show that empowerment is important for agricultural production and that households in which adult individuals are more empowered are more productive. This means that other and possibly more effective pathways to agrarian intensification exist and important agricultural productivity gains could be made by empowering men and women in rural households.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : UCAL:B5340104
Author : Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere,Catherine Chiang,Kwaw S. Andam
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896295421
Provides an overview of current knowledge of the impact of health issues on farm-level productivity and decisionmaking, and the impact of agriculture on health in developing countries.