The role of agriculture in ensuring food security in developing countries: Considerations in the context of the problem of sustainable food production

K Pawlak, M Kołodziejczak - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ensuring food security has become an issue of key importance to countries with different
degrees of economic development, while the agricultural sector plays a strategic role in …

Research, productivity, and output growth in US agriculture

K Fuglie, M Clancy, P Heisey… - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2017 - cambridge.org
This article reviews the current debate on whether US agricultural productivity growth is
slowing. It also assesses recent research on how productivity is related to long-term …

Determining climate effects on US total agricultural productivity

XZ Liang, Y Wu, RG Chambers… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The sensitivity of agricultural productivity to climate has not been sufficiently quantified. The
total factor productivity (TFP) of the US agricultural economy has grown continuously for over …

R&D capital, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth in world agriculture

K Fuglie - Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the world's food supply has depended heavily on increasing agricultural
productivity, which in turn depends on investments in research and development (R&D) …

Farm size and productivity growth in the United States Corn Belt

N Key - Food Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent decades, agricultural production in the US has continued to shift to large-scale
operations, raising concerns about the economic viability of small and midsized farms. To …

perspectives on the roles of real time nitrogen sensing and IoT integration in smart agriculture

MM Shrestha, L Wei - Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Smart agriculture (SA) based on the framework of precision agriculture (PA) is a vital
component of sustainable and efficient food production, with nitrogen (N) management …

Impact of contracts in high yielding varieties seed production on profits and yield: The case of Nepal

AK Mishra, A Kumar, PK Joshi, A D'souza - Food Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Nepal's population continues to grow, but the agricultural sector's performance remains
almost stagnant. This has led to a decline in the per capita availability of food. Increasing …

Agricultural potential of the EU countries: how far are they from the USA?

K Pawlak, L Smutka, P Kotyza - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Although the EU and the USA are the largest players in the global agricultural market, there
are only a few up-to-date comparative studies concerning their agricultural potential and …

Techno-optimism and farmers' attitudes toward climate change adaptation

M Gardezi, JG Arbuckle - Environment and Behavior, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In industrialized societies, techno-optimism is a belief that human ingenuity, through
improved science and technology, will ultimately provide remedies to most current and …

The sources of measured US agricultural productivity growth: weather, technological change, and adaptation

RG Chambers, S Pieralli - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction between US state‐level TFP growth and weather is investigated using
growth‐accounting techniques. The focus is on examining how that interaction changed …