from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …

This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 …, and carbon dioxide response functions are used to calculate the impacts on agriculture. Temperature and precipitation … overall growth of agriculture has been small, contributing between 2.6% and 5.4% of overall growth. This effect has been …

This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions … specialization of labor, which generally raises labor productivity, and technical change, the dominant effect on agriculture has been … technical change. A puzzle remains why schooling does not have broader direct impacts in agriculture. Furthermore, as we proxy …

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … innovations that reduce the susceptibility of agricultural production to these uncontrolled factors. These features of agriculture …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …