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Improving the Measurement and Analysis of African Agricultural Productivity: Promoting Complementarities between Micro and Macro Data

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Valerie Kelly () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
Jane Hopkins
Thomas Reardon
Eric Crawford

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A wide variety of multilateral and bilateral agencies, private sector firms, and African governments have a need for high quality, reliable data on agricultural productivity. This paper identifies numerous situations where poor data lead to incorrect estimates of African land and labor productivity. The paper argues that better coordination of macro, meso, and micro data collection, reporting, and analysis efforts can lower costs and improve our ability to monitor trends and to quantify determinants of agricultural productivity.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Papers with number 16.

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Date of creation: 1995
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Keywords: food security; food policy; agricultural productivity;

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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  1. Carl K. Eicher & Doyle C. Baker, 1982. "Research on Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Survey," International Development Papers 1E, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
  2. Haggblade, Steven & Hazell, Peter & Brown, James, 1989. "Farm-nonfarm linkages in rural sub-Saharan Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 17(8), pages 1173-1201, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Hans P. Binswanger, 1980. "Attitudes Toward Risk: Experimental Measurement in Rural India," Artefactual Field Experiments 0008, The Field Experiments Website. [Downloadable!]
  4. Daniel C. Clay & Fidele Byiringiro & Jaakko Kangasniemi & Thomas Reardon & Bosco Sibomana & Laurence Uwamariya & David Tardif-Douglin, 1995. "Promoting Food Security in Rwanda Through Sustainable Agricultural Productivity: Meeting the Challenges of Population Pressure, Land Degradation, and Poverty," International Development Papers 17, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Valerie Kelly & Bocar Diagana & Thomas Reardon & Matar Gaye & Eric Crawford, 1996. "Cash Crop and Foodgrain Productivity in Senegal: Historical View, New Survey Evidence, and Policy Implications," International Development Papers 20, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Eicher, Carl K. & Baker, Doyle C., 1982. "Research on Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Survey," Food Security III Papers 11451, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
  7. Just, Richard E & Candler, Wilfred, 1985. "Production Functions and Rationality of Mixed Cropping," European Review of Agricultural Economics, Oxford University Press for the Foundation for the European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 12(3), pages 207-31.
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  1. Reardon, Thomas & Kelly, Valerie & Crawford, Eric & Jayne, Thomas & Savadogo, Kimseyinga & Clay, Daniel, 1996. "Determinants Of Farm Productivity In Africa: A Synthesis Of Four Case Studies," Food Security III Papers 11271, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
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