Declining rates of growth in crop yields, slowing investment in agricultural research, and
rising commodity prices has raised concerns of a general slowdown in global agricultural …

We discuss recent trends in agricultural productivity in Africa and highlight how
technological progress in agriculture has stagnated on the continent. We briefly review the …

Throughout history and in every part of the world, innovation in agriculture has played
crucial roles in economic development by increasing farm productivity, enhancing the …

Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to …

In the coming decades, continued population growth, rising meat and dairy consumption
and expanding biofuel use will dramatically increase the pressure on global agriculture …

Although fundamental factors were clearly responsible for shifting the world to a higher food
price equilibrium in the years leading up the 2008 food crisis, there is little doubt that when …

The Millennium Declaration set 2015 as the target date for halving the number of people
living in extreme poverty. Exceptional progress in some developing countries makes …

Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the …

This chapter makes an effort to derive estimates of agricultural total factor productivity (TFP)
growth by country, region and for the world as a whole for the period 1961-2009. To estimate …

This paper focuses on the yield prospects of wheat, rice and maize since these cereals
dominate human diet, and since continued yield growth is considered the major route to …