Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara
The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been quite striking when compared with the past. For the first time, the sector has maintained a real growth rate of 3.4 percent per year, well above the population growth rate of 2.5 p...
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| author | Nin-Pratt, Alejandro |
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| description | The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been quite striking when compared with the past. For the first time, the sector has maintained a real growth rate of 3.4 percent per year, well above the population growth rate of 2.5 percent. Despite this improved performance, agricultural productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research and development (R&D), highlighting the need to facilitate farmers access to technology, markets, and the necessary support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the appropriate technology hypothesis, advanced countries invent technologies that are compatible with their own factor mix, but these technologies are less productive with the very different factor mix of poor countries. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1496362025-11-06T07:03:16Z Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara Nin-Pratt, Alejandro appropriate technology investment agricultural growth technology labour agriculture farm inputs macroeconomics productivity The evidence of improved performance of agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) in recent years has indeed been quite striking when compared with the past. For the first time, the sector has maintained a real growth rate of 3.4 percent per year, well above the population growth rate of 2.5 percent. Despite this improved performance, agricultural productivity growth in SSA continues to lag behind every other region of the world, growing at rates that are roughly half of the average rate of developing countries. Previous studies concluded that SSA should increase investment in agricultural research and development (R&D), highlighting the need to facilitate farmers access to technology, markets, and the necessary support services for raising agricultural productivity. This study introduces a new dimension to the puzzle of agricultural productivity growth in SSA: the role of the input mix and the need to increase capital and inputs per worker not only to boost output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the appropriate technology hypothesis, advanced countries invent technologies that are compatible with their own factor mix, but these technologies are less productive with the very different factor mix of poor countries. 2015-03-27 2024-08-01T02:49:39Z 2024-08-01T02:49:39Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149636 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153603 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149825 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160981 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149559 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153572 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Nin-Pratt, Alejandro. 2015. Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1432. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149636 |
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| title | Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara |
| title_full | Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara |
| title_short | Inputs, productivity, and agricultural growth in Africa South of the Sahara |
| title_sort | inputs productivity and agricultural growth in africa south of the sahara |
| topic | appropriate technology investment agricultural growth technology labour agriculture farm inputs macroeconomics productivity |
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