To feed the world’s growing population, more food needs to be produced. In addition to cropland expansion, which faces a variety of constraints, increasing cropping intensity may provide a promising means of boosting global crop production. Yet information on the size and location of cropping intensity gaps—the difference between the maximum cropping intensity that is theoretically possible and the cropping intensity that is realized today—for current global croplands, and how much additional production can potentially be achieved by closing these gaps, is lacking.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2015
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2015Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s agricultural sector has recorded remarkable rapid growth in the last decade. This paper documents aspects of this growth process. Over the last decade, there have been significant increases - more than a doubling - in the use of modern inputs, such as chemical fertilizers and improved seeds, explaining part of that growth. However, there was also significant land expansion, increased labor use, and Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth, estimated at 2.3 percent per year.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Malawi
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Niger
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2015Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ethiopia
This paper explores the tradeoffs between domestic and productive uses of biomass energy sources in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia using a non -‐separable farm household model where labor and other input allocations to energy collection and farming are analyzed simultaneously.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015Eastern Africa, Southern Africa
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The case of PRAN in Bangladesh
Peer-reviewed publicationJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015Southern Asia, Asia, Bangladesh
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