Issues for crop** and agricultural science in the next 20 years

RA Fischer, DJ Connor - Field Crops Research, 2018 - Elsevier
This position paper honours agricultural scientist and colleague, Professor Bob Loomis, by
discussing the urgent global challenge of food security and the related impacts on the …

Is agricultural productivity slowing?

KO Fuglie - Global food security, 2018 - Elsevier
Declining rates of growth in crop yields, slowing investment in agricultural research, and
rising commodity prices has raised concerns of a general slowdown in global agricultural …

[BOOK][B] The process of economic development

JM Cypher - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
The fourth edition of The Process of Economic Development offers a thorough and up-to-
date treatment of development economics. This landmark text will continue to be an …

Global food waste across the income spectrum: Implications for food prices, production and resource use

EL Barrera, T Hertel - Food Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
There are few examples in the existing literature that address the quantitative linkages
between food waste, food security, and environmental sustainability, at global scale. Here …

Agriculture in the global economy

JM Alston, PG Pardey - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014 - aeaweb.org
The past 50–100 years have witnessed dramatic changes in agricultural production and
productivity, driven to a great extent by public and private investments in agricultural …

Household welfare in the digital age: Assessing the effect of mobile money on household consumption volatility in develo** countries

AE Apeti - World Development, 2023 - Elsevier
Based on a sample of 76 develo** countries over 1990–2019, we assess the effect of
adopting mobile money on consumption volatility using entropy balancing. We reveal that …

Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability

M Campi, M Dueñas, G Fagiolo - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding specialization patterns of countries in food production can provide relevant
insights for the evaluation and design of policies seeking to achieve food security and …

[HTML][HTML] Agricultural investments and hunger in Africa modeling potential contributions to SDG2–Zero Hunger

D Mason-D'Croz, TB Sulser, K Wiebe, MW Rosegrant… - World …, 2019 - Elsevier
We use IFPRI's IMPACT framework of linked biophysical and structural economic models to
examine developments in global agricultural production systems, climate change, and food …

Resources, policies, and agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa

K Fuglie, N Rada - USDA-ERS Economic Research Report, 2013 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low and is falling
farther behind other regions of the world. Although agricultural output growth in the region …

The expansion of modern agriculture and global biodiversity decline: an integrated assessment

B Lanz, S Dietz, T Swanson - Ecological Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food
preferences of an increasing, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires …