Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior / Wolfram Schlenker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schlenker, Wolfram, Editor.

Series:

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

Chicago scholarship online.

National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural productivity.

Agricultural subsidies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Agricultural yields have increased steadily in the last half century, particularly since the Green Revolution. At the same time, inflation-adjusted agricultural commodity prices have been trending downward as increases in supply outpace the growth of demand. Recent severe weather events, biofuel mandates, and a switch toward a more meat-heavy diet in emerging economies have nevertheless boosted commodity prices. Whether this is a temporary jump or the beginning of a longer-term trend is an open question. Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior examines the factors contributing to the remarkably steady increase in global yields and assesses whether yield growth can continue. This research also considers whether such growth will impose significant environmental externalities. Among the topics studied are genetically modified crops; changing climatic factors; farm production responses to government regulations including crop insurance, transport subsidies, and electricity subsidies for groundwater extraction; and the role of specific farm practices such as crop diversification, disease management, and water-saving methods. This research provides new evidence that technological as well as policy choices influence agricultural productivity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Heterogeneous Yield Impacts from Adoption of Genetically Engineered Corn and the Importance of Controlling for Weather

2. Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Weather on US Agricultural Productivity: Evidence and Projection

3. Farming under Weather Risk: Adaptation, Moral Hazard, and Selection on Moral Hazard

4. Intranational Trade Costs, Reallocation, and Technical Change: Evidence from a Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Reform

5. Electricity Prices, Groundwater, and Agriculture: The Environmental and Agricultural Impacts of Electricity Subsidies in India

6. Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa

7. Crop Disease and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model of Verticillium Wilt Management

8. Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Foods during Drought

Contributors

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226619941

022661994X

OCLC:

1135577925