agricultural productivity

Agriculture is highly dependent on and sensitive to weather. Warming effects result from greenhouse gas emissions and aerosols from a small number of countries but its impact will be felt on a global scale. So far, agricultural productivity growth has sustained the continuous gl…

This dissertation examines plot certification that was carried out in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, in the late 1990s. The program was expected to increase smallholders' tenure security and encourage producers to make key investments on plots that would ultimately increase agricultur…

Long-run food price changes respond to long-run changes in food demand, quasi-fixed and variable production factors, and agricultural productivity. Recent global food-price volatility puts a renewed spotlight on the trends and sources of any agricultural productivity growth. Bec…

This study employed an integrated approach to investigate drivers and impacts of environmental change from the 1980s to 2012 using geospatial and statistical analyses of atmospheric, climate, land use land cover, and socio-economic data. The atmospheric and climate data were obt…