Technical efficiency, technical change and return to scale of rice, maize and agricultural production in Vietnam

The rapid growth of human population has impacted on global food security, development and health. Therefore, efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals of reducing poverty and hunger needs to particularly focus on the critical linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and poverty reduction. Agriculture plays a significant role in largely agro-dependent developing economies as a source of livelihood to the rural population, foreign exchange earner and source of food to the growing populations. Recent statistics estimate the world population at 7.6 billion by mid 2017, an est...