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Does Modern Technology Increase Agricultural Productivity? Revisiting the Evidence from Loevinsohn et al.

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Title Does Modern Technology Increase Agricultural Productivity? Revisiting the Evidence from Loevinsohn et al.
 
Creator Herdt, R.W.
Mine, S.
 
Subject income
development
data
technology
al
adoption
productivity
paper
uk
agricultural productivity
 
Description This technical note re-examines the 214 papers identified by Loevinsohn and colleagues in their 2013 report to the UK Department for International Development (DFID) on the circumstances and conditions under which technology adoption results in increased agricultural productivity. That report produced no clear evidence-based guidance on such circumstances and conditions. Using criteria slightly less restrictive than theirs, the authors of this paper identified 30 of the 214 studies that reported a relationship between technology and agricultural productivity: 21 of the 23 with yield data showed a positive relationship between use of technology and yield, and 2 showed no increase; 24 of 26 examining income showed a positive relationship between technology use and income, and the other 2 showed no increase.

This research was supported by ISPC-SPIA under the grant “Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR (SIAC) (https://cas.cgiar.org/spia/news/strengthening-impact-assessment-cgiar-siac-2013-2016).”
 
Date 2017
2023-02-25T17:08:53Z
2023-02-25T17:08:53Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Herdt, R.W. & Mines, S. (2017). Does Modern Technology Increase Agricultural Productivity? Revisiting the Evidence from Loevinsohn et al. Rome: CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128910
https://iaes.cgiar.org/node/11832
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council