Crop diseases and how they are managed can have a large impact on agricultural productivity. This paper discusses the … effects on agricultural productivity of Verticillium dahliae, a soil borne fungus that is introduced to the soil via infested … important implications for agricultural productivity …

, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to …

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or … constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity … geographic regions, we find that low agricultural productivity in poor countries is not due to poor land endowments. If countries …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

exogenous productivity shocks arising from variation in temperature are propagated into the future. We find that past weather … shocks have persistent effects on land values and productivity up to two years following the shock. Propagation and … amplification of productivity shocks are both significantly larger during the farm debt crisis of the 1980s and amongst farms in …

This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict … the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permanent improvements in agricultural productivity, we exploit the …

We assess the effects of land markets on misallocation and productivity by exploiting effective variation in land … increase agricultural productivity. Our evidence builds from an empirical difference-in-difference strategy and a calibrated …