impacts that changes in agricultural productivity might have for seven food industry sectors, namely meat, vegetable oils and … productivity and its impacts on production, trade and prices of primary agriculture, and ultimately, food processing sectors. We …

, and animal power, government subsidies encouraged the use of fertilizer and machines. Since productivity growth arises … from technical change, Brazil's drive to modernize its agricultural sector should improve agricultural productivity …. However, inefficient production practices arising from subsidies can slow multifactor productivity growth. Recent removal of …

approach applied to panel data for the period 2003-2005. Knowledge of the relative contribution of factors productivity and … contribution of total factor productivity is found to be the main source of that growth. …

We analyze the correlation between farm productivity and market participation using comparable household data from … productivity, which we relate to that household’s level of participation in local markets using a wide range of agricultural … productivity have greater participation in agricultural markets. In contrast, households with greater rates of market participation …

The paper investigates the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies on farm total factor productivity … effect of subsidies into a model of unobserved productivity. We empirically study the effects using the Farm Accountancy Data … Network (FADN) samples for the EU-15 countries. Our main findings are clear: subsidies impact negatively farm productivity in …

productivity and efficiency levels in maize production in CA and conventional farming. The analysis is based on a three year panel … sample of smallholder farming households and employing a stochastic production frontier model compare productivity and …