Selling at the farmgate? Role of liquidity constraints and implications for agricultural productivity

Agrekon ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Josiah M. Ateka ◽  
Perez Ayieko Onono-Okelo ◽  
Martin Etyang
Keyword(s):  
Liquidity Constraints ◽  
Agricultural Productivity

Technological Innovation and the Agricultural Sustainability

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Rachida Khaled ◽  
Lamine Hammas
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Agricultural Sustainability ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
The Impact

The diffusion of the technological innovation can affect the agricultural sector in the three-sided (social, economic and environmental), a hand, it can contribute to solve problems of the agricultural sector: the effects of the climatic changes, the farming exodus and the migration and the problems of poverty and it can improve the agricultural productivity. But on the other hand, he can lead to new problems, such as depletion of energy resources caused by excessive use of energizing technologies, pollution of air and water and the destruction of soil by industrial waste. This paper aims to theoretically and empirically analyze the role of technological innovation in improving agricultural sustainability through the impact of mechanization on agricultural productivity, energy production and net income per capita for a panel of three Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) during the period 1997-2012. By using simultaneous equations, the authors' finding that technological innovation cannot achieve the purpose of sustainable development in the agriculture sector in the Maghreb countries through the negative impact of mechanization and research and development on agricultural productivity.

Technological Innovation and the Agricultural Sustainability

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Rachida Khaled ◽  
Lamine Hammas
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Agricultural Sustainability ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Impact

The diffusion of the technological innovation can affect the agricultural sector in the three-sided (social, economic and environmental), a hand, it can contribute to solve problems of the agricultural sector: the effects of the climatic changes, the farming exodus and the migration and the problems of poverty and it can improve the agricultural productivity. But on the other hand, he can lead to new problems, such as depletion of energy resources caused by excessive use of energizing technologies, pollution of air and water and the destruction of soil by industrial waste. This paper aims to theoretically and empirically analyze the role of technological innovation in improving agricultural sustainability through the impact of mechanization on agricultural productivity, energy production and net income per capita for a panel of three Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) during the period 1997-2012. By using simultaneous equations, the authors' finding that technological innovation cannot achieve the purpose of sustainable development in the agriculture sector in the Maghreb countries through the negative impact of mechanization and research and development on agricultural productivity.

scholarly journals Liquidity constraints, spillovers, and entrepreneurship: evidence from a cash transfer program

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 1131-1158
Author(s):  
Rafael P. Ribas
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Liquidity Constraints ◽  
Cash Transfer ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Transfer Program ◽  
Liquidity Shocks ◽  
Liquidity Shock

Abstract This paper exploits a liquidity shock from a welfare program in Brazil to investigate the role of financial constraints, in opposition to general equilibrium mechanisms, in explaining entrepreneurship. Previous research focuses exclusively on how liquidity changes recipients’ behavior through direct effects on reducing constraints. However, liquidity shocks may also produce spillovers from recipients to others and thereby indirectly affect entrepreneurial decisions. This paper presents a method for decomposing the liquidity shock into direct effects associated with relieving individual constraints, and indirect effects associated with spillovers to other individuals. Results suggest that the program, which assists 20 percent of Brazilian households, increased the number of small entrepreneurs by 10 percent. However, this increase is entirely driven by the indirect effect. Further tests suggest that this effect is associated with an increase in private transfers between households. Thus, entrepreneurship tends to respond more to the interaction between households than to financial constraints.

scholarly journals Adoption of Hybrid Maize in Zambia: Effects on Gender Roles, Food Consumption, and Nutrition

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubh K. Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Eastern Province ◽  
Hybrid Maize

This report examines the role of hybrid maize adoption in Eastern Province, Zambia, in improving the welfare of the population. Improving agricultural productivity of farmers in Zambia is important for the success of the country's new economic growth strategy. Past investment in hybrid maize research has developed a potential for increased productivity that needs to be fully utilized.

The Role of Agricultural Productivity in Economic Development

1964 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond P. Christensen ◽  
Harold T. Yee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Agricultural Productivity

“Goths and Vandals” or “Civilized” Farmers? Common Lands and Agricultural Productivity in Early-Twentieth-Century Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Common Lands

By analyzing the different factors affecting labor agricultural productivity in early-twentieth-century Spain, this article shows that common lands were not detrimental to agricultural development. Even though privatization fostered output per worker by bringing more land into cultivation, the role of the commons as provider of pasture and fertilizing materials counteracted that effect, especially in humid regions. The supposed advantages of dismantling the communal regime are thus not supported by the data.

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