The OECD contribution to global food security
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- World Wheat, Rice, and Corn Production, 1998. // World Almanac & Book of Facts;2000, p143
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- Eritrea. // Africa Report;Jan/Feb94, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p7
Reports on the implications of the failure of the agricultural harvests of Eritrea. Seventy percent failure of the agricultural harvest; Sorghum as the main crop; Dry spells, infestations, excessive rainfall, and hailstorms as reasons for the failure; Possibility of starvation in the worst hit...
- Testing hypotheses of functional structure: Some rules for determining flexibility of restricted... Driscoll, Paul; McGuirk, Anya // American Journal of Agricultural Economics;Feb92, Vol. 74 Issue 1, p100
Proposes rules in determining the functional flexibility of production models in agriculture. Conditions necessary to maintain flexibility; Comparison of various flexible functional forms.
- Productivity growth in U.S. agriculture: A postwar perspective. Jorgenson, Dale W.; Gollop, Frank M. // American Journal of Agricultural Economics;Aug92, Vol. 74 Issue 3, p745
Compares the postwar productivity performance of agriculture with sectors in the private non-farm economy of the United States. Total factor productivity model of sectoral production; Patterns of productivity growth; Input quality.
- Agricultural productivity and sources of growth in South Asia. Rosegrant, Mark W.; Evenson, Robert E. // American Journal of Agricultural Economics;Aug92, Vol. 74 Issue 3, p757
Assesses total factor productivity (TFP) growth in agriculture in India. Sources of productivity growth; Rates of return to public investments in research and extension.
- International productivity patterns: Accounting for input quality, infrastructure, and research. Craig, Barbara J.; Pardey, Philip G.; Roseboom, Johannes // American Journal of Agricultural Economics;Nov97, Vol. 79 Issue 4, p1064
Focuses on the agricultural productivity of ninety-eight developing and developed countries. What is land measure; Identification of the countries with the highest and lowest output per hectare; Conclusion reached.
- From total factor to total resource productivity: An application to agriculture. Gollop, Frank M.; Swinand, Gregory P. // American Journal of Agricultural Economics;Aug98, Vol. 80 Issue 3, p577
Presents a model for total resource productivity, which is applied to the United State farm sector. Information on the production sector; Formulation for productivity growth; Details on total factor productivity.
- AGRICULTURE, CLIMATE, AND TECHNOLOGY: WHY ARE THE TROPICS FALLING BEHIND. Gallup, John Luke; Sachs, Jeffrey D. // American Journal of Agricultural Economics;Aug2000, Vol. 82 Issue 3, p731
Investigates the causes of lower agricultural productivity in the tropics. Image of the humid tropics; Quantification of the tropical disadvantage; Geographical destiny or technology conditioned by geography.
- Agricultural productivity growth in China: farm level versus aggregate measurement. CARTER, Colin A.; CHEN, Jing; CHU, Baojin // China Economic Review (1043951X);Mar2003, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p53
We measure agricultural productivity growth in China using alternative data sets: farm level data for Jiangsu province, national data, and provincial aggregate data for Jiangsu. For all three data sets, productivity growth was estimated to be strong during the immediate post-reform 1978�1987...
