"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for … household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick … efficiency and poverty reduction. Overall, regression results confirm the negative impact of health impediment on farmers …

for technology transfer and productivity growth. This paper compiles diverse spatial data on biophysical conditions …

rice productivity at a relatively late stage in Asia’s Green Revolution, as well as unheralded progress against …

livelihood. This report provides an overview of current knowledge of the impact of health issues on farm-level productivity and … productivity and poor health. At the household level, the investment in health can improve resilience and enhance the ability to … productivity, health, and resilience of farm households. …

Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experi-mental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the … the benefits from any improvements in input use intensity (technical efficiency). For this purpose, we adopted a data … envelopment analysis-based Malmquist-type productivity index to decompose productivity differences into (1) within-group farm …