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 …

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. …

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 …

productivity effects brought about through diversifying the genetic base in wheat breeding in the post-Green Revolution period … support, rather than detract from wheat productivity, reinforcing breeding successes. …

A serious concern has been raised recently on the long run sustainability of the productivity effects of Green … ecosystem. However, the changes in physical yield are not true measures of productivity from efficiency perspective. Total … factor productivity (TFP) is a true measure of economic efficiency of any technology impact. The paper addresses the crucial …

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

an arid region in northwest China. The results show that the water policy change results in a lower elasticity of land …

This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change and the uncertainty of CO2 fertilization on China's corn … background and reviews research literature of climate change effects on China's crop yields. The paper presents the potential … impact of climate change on China's yields and attempts to quantify the domestic and global market impacts. The analysis has …