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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry
Bonny, Sylvie - 2017
In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...
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Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity growth by farm size
Helfand, Steven M.; Magalhães, Marcelo; Rada, Nicholas E. - 2015
The role of farm size has recently come to the forefront of agricultural development debates. Agricultural development policy often focuses on small farms given evidence of their role in poverty reduction and of higher yields. Yet policy has also focused on large farms due to their share of...
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Sectoral value added prices, TFP growth, and the low-skilled wage in high-income countries
Lücke, Matthias - 1999
productivity (TFP) on the equilibrium relative wage of low-skilled workers in eleven high-income countries. The key finding is that … TFP growth mandated an increase in the unskilled wage, relative to the remuneration of human capital, during the 1970s …, but a decrease during the 1980s. This is consistent with the observation that, in most sample countries, the relative wage …
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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages : worker-level evidence from Germany
Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023
market biographies to investigate the impact on wages between 2010 and 2017. Results indicate a wage growth premium in … occupations more exposed to AI, contrasting with a wage growth discount in occupations exposed to robots. Finally, the study …
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Technology adoption and the multiple dimensions of food security : the case of maize in Tanzania
Magrini, Emiliano; Vigani, Mauro - 2014
The paper analyses the impact of agricultural technologies on the four pillars of food security for maize farmers in Tanzania. Relying on matching techniques, we use a nationally representative dataset collected over the period 2010/2011 to estimate the causal effects of using improved seeds and...
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Automation and efficiency : a latent class analysis of Irish dairy farms
Garcia-Covarrubias, Luis; Läpple, Doris; Dillon, Emma; … - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 1, pp. 1-24
Automation has always played a significant role in the productivity and efficiency of agriculture. This paper explores the role of automation on farms' technical efficiency (TE) in an expanding dairy sector. We use a representative sample of Irish dairy farms that includes detailed data on...
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Technology Adoption and the Multiple Dimensions of Food Security : The Case of Maize In Tanzania
Magrini, Emiliano - 2014
The paper analyses the impact of agricultural technologies on the four pillars of food security for maize farmers in Tanzania. Relying on matching techniques, we use a nationally representative dataset collected over the period 2010/2011 to estimate the causal effects of using improved seeds and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043547
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Weather, Climate, and Technology Adoption : An Application to Drought-Tolerant Corn in the United States
McFadden, Jonathan R.; Smith, David; Wallander, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Crop farmers have few short-run options for reducing downside production risk from changes in drought frequency and intensity due to ongoing climate change. However, one recently available option is drought-tolerant (DT) varieties. We determine how recent drought exposure, drought risk, and...
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Productivity and the performance of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : from the lost decade to the commodity boom
Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A.; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015
This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting approach that goes along the lines of neoclassical growth...
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Monitoring agricultural productivity for sustainable production and R&D planning
Laborde Debucquet, David; Piñeiro, Valeria - 2018
Argentina's G20 presidency has emphasized the needs to improve soil management and increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way to achieve an inclusive and resilient food future. While increases in agricultural productivity improve economic welfare and can help address food security...
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