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Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe

Authored by:
Swinnen, Johan F.M; van Herck, Kristine; Vranken, Liesbet
Edited by: 
Alston, Julian M.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Pardey, Philip G.
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The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide, Iowa State University, The Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center (MATRIC), 2010, 279-313.
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Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity in the United States

Authored by:
Alston, Julian M.; Andersen, Matthew A.; James, Jennifer S.; Pardey, Philip G.
Edited by: 
Alston, Julian M.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Pardey, Philip G.
Publisher:
The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide, Iowa State University, The Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center (MATRIC), 2010, 193-227.
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Smart Investments in Sustainable Food Production: Revisiting Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems

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Herrero, M.; Thornton, P.K.; Notenbaert, A.M.; Wood, S.; Msangi, S.; Freeman, H.A.; Bossio, D.; Dixon, J.; Peters, M.; van de Steeg, J.; Lynam, J.; Parthasarathy Rao P.; Macmillan, S.; Gerard, B.; McDermott, J.; Sere, C.; Rosegrant, M.
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Science, 2010, Volume 327, Issue 5967, 822-825.
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South African Agricultural Production and Productivity Patterns

Authored by:
Liebenberg, Frikkie; Pardey, Philip G.
Edited by: 
Alston, Julian M.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Pardey, Philip G.
Publisher:
The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide, Iowa State University, The Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center (MATRIC), 2010, 383-408.
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Here we document and discuss developments regarding aggregate input, output, and productivity developments within South Africa. To do so we draw on an entirely new set of production data stretching back to 1910/11 reported in Liebenberg 2010, as well as related evidence reported by other studies for South Africa and other countries within subSaharan Africa.

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Potential Impact of Investments in Drought Tolerant Maize in Africa

Authored by:
La Rovere, Roberto; Kostandini, Genti; Abdoulaye, Tahirou; Dixon, John; Mwangi, Wilfred; Guo, Zhe; Banziger, Marianne
Publisher:
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), 2010, 38 pages.
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The study evaluates the potential impacts of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project run by CIMMYT and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in 13 countries of eastern, southern and West Africa: Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, ambia, and Zimbabwe and Ghana.

The Economics of Innovation and Technical Change in Agriculture

Authored by:
Pardey, Philip G.; Alston, Julian M.; Ruttan, Vernon W
Edited by: 
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Rosenberg, Nathan
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Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, Volume 2, Elsevier, 2010, 939- 984.
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Torrents and Trickles: Irrigation Spending Needs in Africa; Summary

Authored by:
You, L.; Ringler, C.; Nelson, G.; Wood-Sichra, U.; Robertson, R.; Wood, S.; Zhe, G.; Zhu, T.; Sun, Y.
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World Bank, September, 2009, 12 pages.
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Ex Ante Analysis of the Benefits of Transgenic Drought Tolerance Research on Cereal Crops in Low-income Countries

Authored by:
Kostandini, Genti; Mills, Bradford F.; Omamo, Steven Were; Wood, Stanley
Publisher:
Agricultural Economics, July, 2009, Volume 40, Issue 4, 477-492.
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This article develops a framework to examine the ex ante benefits of transgenic research on drought in eight low-income countries, including the benefits to producers and consumers from farm income stabilization and the potential magnitude of private sector profits from intellectual property rights (IPRs).

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Crop Production and Road Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Spatial Analysis

Authored by:
Dorosh, Paul; Wang, Hyoung-Gun; You, Liang; Schmidt, Emily
Publisher:
World Bank, February, 2009, Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic Working Paper 19, 46 pages.
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This study adopts a cross-sectional spatial approach to examine the impact of transport infrastructure on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa using new data obtained from geographic information systems (GIS).

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Corporate Pricing Strategies with Heterogeneous Adopters: The Case of Herbicide-Resistant Sugar Beet

Authored by:
Dillen, Koen; Demont, Matty; Tollens, Eric
Publisher:
AgBioForum, 2009, Volume 12, Issue 3 & 4,
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In ex-ante impact assessment of proprietary seed technologies, the assessor operates under scarce and imperfect data.

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