Productivity Growth in Agriculture: An International Perspective
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Increasing food prices have renewed concerns about long-run 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. Essential reading for researchers, policy makers and students.
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Weight: 1000g
Dimensions: 172 x 244mm
Publication Date: 21 Sep 2012
Publisher: CABI Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781845939212
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Keith Fuglie is Chief of the Resource Environmental and Science Policy Branch at the Economic Research Service U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington DC. He specializes in the analysis of international agricultural productivity the economics of technical change and research policy. In 1997-1998 he served as senior economist on the White House Council of Economic Advisors. From 1998 to 2006 he was with the International Potato Center (CIP) based in Indonesia where he was regional director for CIP in Asia and headed CIP's social science research program. In 1990-91 Keith was a Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellow in Tunisia. He received an MS and PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota and a BA from Concordia College Moorhead Minnesota.