This study identifies Mexican sugarcane-planting micro-regions with different productive potential (PP), technical efficiency (TE) and poverty, to propose targeted impact investments. Central to our analysis are three innovative approaches: estimating a Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) model...

Modernisation of the sugar industry in Indonesia, particularly at the off-farm level, has been slow, with most sugar factories still using old factory machinery. However, this can be improved through the use of technology to build a sustainable sugar industry. Technological advances in the...

Food systems are undergoing a number of significant transformations in response to technological, economic, social and environmental changes. Transformations related to increased productivity, specialisation of farming systems, optimisation of resources, automation of farming operations, changes...

Human capital development is considered as the major source of knowledge and skills in the innovation process. Despite this, there is evidence of absence of technical and managerial knowledge among emerging sugarcane farmers who are beneficiaries of the South Africa’s land reform program,...