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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Innovation Systems and Technical Efficiency in Developing-Country Agriculture	
Autores: 	Mekonnen,   Dawit Kelemework; Spielman,   David J.; Fonsah,   Esendugue Greg.	
Data: 	2012-01-18	
Ano: 	2012	
Palavras-chave: 	Agricultural innovation systems; Technical efficiency; Developing country agriculture; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis.	
Resumo: 	The paper uses a stochastic frontier analysis of production functions to estimate the level of technical efficiency in agriculture for a panel of 29 developing countries in Africa and Asia between 1994 and 2000. In addition, the paper examines how different components of an agricultural innovation system interact to determine the estimated technical inefficiencies. Results show that the mean level of technical efficiency among the sampled countries was about 86 percent, with some modest increases during the period in question. These results suggest that there is room for significant increases of production through reallocations of existing resources. Despite significant variation among countries, these results also indicate quite a number of least developed countries have high mean efficiency scores, implying a need to focus on investment that pushes the production frontier outward in these countries. Several measures of agricultural R&amp;D achievement and intensity, along with educational enrollment, are found to enhance agricultural efficiency. On the other hand, countries with higher levels of official development assistance, foreign direct investment, and a greater share of land under irrigation are found to be performing poorly in their agricultural efficiency score.	
Tipo: 	Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://purl.umn.edu/119788	
Relação: 	Southern Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2012 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2012, Birmingham, Alabama	
Formato: 	22