Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development

By D. Spielman, R. Pandya-Lorch. 2009

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Shaping agricultural innovation systems responsive to food insecurity and climate change (2011, background): “In the early years results were encouraging (Smale and Jayne 2009), but by the mid 1980s early optimism gave way to concerns about 'patchy' results and stagnation (de Groote et al. 2005; Byerlee and Heisey 1996).”
Adaptation to land constraints: Is Africa different? (2014, background): “And since the Green Revolution successes in Asia, there has emerged a more generic literature on intensification and technology adoption (Diao et al., 2008; Djurfeldt et al., 2005; Evenson, 2004; Evenson and Gollin, 2003; Hazell, 2009; Johnson et al., 2003; Mosley, 2002), with population pressures b”
Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability (2010, background): “The long-run decline of agricultural commodity prices in the second half of the twentieth century is a testament to the growth of aggregate agricultural production outstripping aggregate demand for food, despite the human population almost doubling over that time (Spielman and Pandya-Lorch 2009).”