This paper reviews the constraints hindering growth of agricultural productivity in Nigeria by
providing an overview of the policy environment that affects agricultural productivity …

In this paper we examine the levels and trends in agricultural output and productivity in 93
developed and developing countries that account for a major portion of the world population …

During the last half-century, advances in crop production came from expansion in areas
irrigated from more intensive application of fertilizers and crop protection chemicals, and …

This article measures and compares total factor productivity growth in African agriculture
under contemporaneous and sequential technology frontiers over the period 1970–2004 …

This article presents multi‐output, multi‐input total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates in
agriculture for 88 countries over the 1970–2001 period, estimated with both stochastic …

In order to meet the soaring demand for food, there is a need to increase rice and fish
production in Bangladesh. In spite of the potential for rice-fish farming, rice monoculture …

This paper analyses Malawi's smallholder agricultural efficiency, using a nationally
representative sample survey of rural households undertaken by the National Statistical …

Nonparametric productivity analyses performed to date show that most developing countries
are experiencing relatively rapid technical regress in agriculture. We discuss the plausibility …

The paper examines the economic performance of a large number of African countries using
an international comparable data set and the latest technique for analysis. The paper …

This paper compares technical efficiency (TE) and metatechnology ratios (MTR) for dairy
farms from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay using the meta-frontier (MF) approach. The …