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Labor has been moving from low-productivity agricultural activities to higher-productivity activities, but the latter are mostly services rather than manufacturing.
In Ethiopia, for example, public investments in irrigation, transport, and power have produced a significant increase in agricultural productivity and incomes.
In part because of low income elasticity of demand for agricultural products, outflows of labor from agriculture are an inevitable outcome during the process of development.
In both countries, the well-established methodology of cost-benefit analysis is being applied to interventions as varied as anti-poverty measures, agricultural tariffs, child immunization, legal aid reform, e-government solutions, and rebuilding the armed forces.
Given climate change, that means accounting for whether, say, entire low-lying coastal areas or agricultural regions will be able to cope.
Tariffs and TortillasBUENOS AIRES – Ever since Mexico’s so-called “Tortilla crisis” this past January, street protests against food shortages and high prices, or against increasing taxes on agricultural production, have spread from Haiti to Central American countries, and across Latin America.
Argentina’s decision in March to drastically increase the tax on agricultural exports provoked a widespread clash with rural producers, leading to a novel and complex social polarization while generating a political crisis that is still ongoing.
Mexico, Peru, and other nations were suspicious of the anti-American rhetoric of the ALBA grouping, but some practical proposals – such as the creation of a bank of agricultural products to reduce costs for small and midsize producers – have come out of it.
For Latin American policymakers, assuring food security can really be achieved only if a new international regime of genuinely free trade for agricultural commodities is built.
If organic production were scaled up significantly, the lower yields would lead to greater pressure to convert land to agricultural use and produce more animals for manure, to say nothing of the tighter squeeze on water supplies – all of which are challenges to sustainability.
Meanwhile, rising temperatures are increasing the likelihood of pests and crop diseases, jeopardizing agricultural productivity and subjecting the population to increasingly frequent heatwaves.
Other successful examples of this approach include sanitary certifications of agricultural products and training programs for the software industry.
Indeed, the proliferation of agricultural technology – from more efficient machinery to higher-yielding or more robust crop varieties – has the potential to narrow the productivity gap considerably, even if differences between climates and producers remain.
The need to increase agricultural output becomes more urgent every day.
They should commit to advancing sound agricultural management, maintaining well-functioning markets, and increasing investment in agriculture.
Perhaps the most pressing constraint on agricultural production is the impending labor shortage, as rural young people, who traditionally comprise the agricultural labor force, flock to cities.
With small farmers unable to provide sufficient surpluses, agricultural production will become increasingly consolidated and mechanized, raising fossil-fuel consumption, which will have to be offset by the introduction of more efficient technologies.
Although precipitation may be affected, higher temperatures would enable agricultural production in colder regions, and CO2 is known to bolster plant growth, even in dry areas.
Yet many in Europe and the United States – which have benefited most from agricultural advances – are mistrustful of this progress, viewing scientific advancement and free trade as a dangerous combination.
The economic takeoff of these two giants started 40 years ago with the introduction of higher agricultural output and an end to famines.
Yet part of that increased agricultural output resulted from millions of wells that were sunk to tap underground water supplies for irrigation.
Some argue that Europe needs to follow the example of its agricultural policy and introduce a CAP-style defense budget so that free-rider EU countries start to pay their way.
By raising the bargaining power of agricultural labor, the act’s passage has led to higher farm wages, greater purchasing power for the rural poor, and lower distress migration.
Warmer temperatures will boost agricultural production and improve health.
Research shows that increasing agricultural productivity is the most effective way to reduce poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
What I am now learning is that if Africa hopes to spark an agricultural transformation, countries will first need to remove one of the main barriers holding the sector back: a pervasive gender gap.
In some places, that may mean teaching agricultural extension workers how to make their messages more relevant to female audiences, or encouraging them to visit when women are most likely to be at home.
This June, leaders from all over Africa will meet in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to set the agenda for agricultural policy in the next decade.
If Africa’s agricultural sector is to achieve its promise – and if Africa’s economic growth is to continue – policymakers should take into account the needs of farmers like Joyce.
The first of these NSF-funded groups tackled regulatory policy toward agricultural biotechnology, and recommended that the government tighten regulations for growing GM crops, including a new requirement that the foods from these crops be labeled to identify them for consumers.
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