Productivity growth in agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : an international perspective / / edited by Keith O. Fuglie, Sun Ling Wang, and V. Eldon Ball

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : CABI, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.1/6; 338.16
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural productivity
• Altri autori: FuglieKeith Owen WangSun Ling BallV. Eldon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction to productivity growth in agriculture / Keith O. Fuglie, Sun Ling Wang and V. Eldon Ball -- Accounting for the impact of local public goods in U.S. agricultural productivity growth / Sun Ling Wang ... [et al.] -- A production account for Canadian agriculture, 1961-2006 / Sean A. Cahill and Tabitha Rich -- Measuring productivity of the Australian broadacre and dairy industries / Shiji Zhao, Yu Sheng and Emily M. Gray -- Agricultural productivity in the transition economies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe / Johan Swinnen, Kristine Van Herck and Liesbet Vranken -- Is agricultural productivity growth slowing in Western Europe? / Sun Ling Wang, David Schimmelpfennig, and Keith o. Fuglie -- Total factor productivity in Brazilian agriculture / José Garcia Gasques ... [et al.] -- Chinese regional agricultural productivity: 1994-2005 / Haizhi Tong, Lilyan E. Fulginiti and Juan P. Sesmero -- Structural transformation and productivity in Indian agriculture / Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize and Alwin D'Souza -- Shifting sources of agricultural growth in Indonesia: a regional analysis / Nicholas E. Rada and Keith O. Fuglie -- Total factor productivity in Thai agriculture: measurement and determinants / Waleerat Suphannachart and Peter Warr -- R&D and agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Keith O. Fuglie and Nicholas E. Rada -- Policy changes and the recovery of agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Bingxin Yu -- South African agricultural productivity and investment patterns / Frikkie Liebenberg -- Fixed capital in agriculture and its contribution to growth / Rita Butzer, Yair Mundlak and Donald F. Larson -- Productivity growth in the global agricultural economy and the role of technology capital / Keith O. Fuglie.
• Sommario/riassunto: Increasing food prices have renewed concerns about long-term agricultural demand and supply in the global economy. This book looks at results, methods, and data on international agricultural productivity for a better understanding of long-run trends and the policies that determine them. By presenting an international assessment of total factor productivity growth in agriculture, including up-to-date empirical analysis for developed and developing countries and regions, it provides a response to the rising global scarcity of agricultural production. It is essential reading for researchers, poli
• Titolo autorizzato: Productivity growth in agriculture
• ISBN: 1-283-67082-8; 1-84593-922-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910626114403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II