Increased global agricultural output since the 1990s has been largely driven by innovations
that raised the efficiency of use of labour, land, capital and other inputs—referred to as total …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Purpose Total factor productivity (TFP) has become a prominent concept in agriculture
economics and policy over the last three decades. The main aim of this paper is to obtain a …

Agricultural insurance and green agriculture are strongly related. Agricultural insurance not
only motivates farmers to adopt environmentally friendly production technology and …

Although the literature shows that financial inclusion provides rural poor households and
businesses with much needed credit to increase income, whether it achieves the goal …

In spite of growing body of research on human capital and innovation, our understanding of
the effects and roles of human capital in enhancing innovation and technology adoption in …

The particularities of agriculture, as a sector which ensures food supply, result from many
factors, including the multilateral interaction between the environment and human activity …

Throughout history, agriculture-led development strategies with state support programs have
been essential to achieving rapid economy-wide growth, poverty reduction, and structural …

Bearing in mind the predictions of global population growth and the reduction of agricultural
areas, followed by the depletion of non-renewable resources and environmental pollution …

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