Monsanto's agricultural productivity sales, which include sales of its Roundup product, were flat for the quarter.
There is hardly any substantial investment in agricultural productivity, social facilities, infrastructure, trade or development.
Africa continues to suffer from low levels of agricultural productivity and is constantly bedeviled by famines.
Limited agricultural productivity, continued land degradation and water scarcity have made food self-sufficiency goals unachievable at the national or regional level.
The biggest challenges will lie in Africa - where agricultural productivity has been falling and 30% of the population is permanently under-nourished.
Thousands of farmers continue to leave the land every year, responding to technological changes that have doubled agricultural productivity over the past half century.
Demand for food in these countries will also double, which, at their current low levels of agricultural productivity, will drive up demand for forest land.
Private, non-agricultural productivity growth has behaved oddly during this business cycle.
The most important is a commitment to agricultural reform, which Mr Estrada says should focus on improving agricultural productivity and increasing transport links between farms and cities.
Sri Lanka is pursuing a combination of government directed policies, private investment, both foreign and domestic, to spur growth in disadvantaged areas, develop small and medium enterprises, and increase agricultural productivity.
Ukraine and Georgia had any impact on agricultural productivity?
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We earned their business and achieved what we set out to achieve: unit volume growth in our core crops, a successful implementation of our agricultural productivity strategy and sustained cost-discipline across our operations.
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At a time of massive and rapid increase in agricultural productivity, when natural resources still seemed limitless to the casual eye, it changed our understanding of the environment and of our role in it.
Certainly the warm period increased the productivity of crops which led to an increase in population, the subsequent cooling (and more importantly, change in rainfall patterns) reduced agricultural productivity and led to hunger and starvation.
Agricultural and industrial productivity dropped sharply and the country suffered a major national economic crisis in the late 1990s.
This shift gave people an incentive to improve productivity by enhancing agricultural technology.
On a return trip to Rwanda last week, we saw ample evidence in Kigali: a new and fully-leased 20-story skyscraper, tower cranes that punctuate the skyline, and shiny metal roofs in rural areas that attest to growing household income. (Rwanda raised one million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2011.) Agricultural cooperatives improve efficiency and productivity.
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Water and conservation projects undertaken in the agricultural heartland precipitated a revolution in productivity that has fed much of the world.
Globally, water is saved if agricultural products are traded from regions with high water productivity to those with low water productivity.
Since the 1930s agricultural innovation and a rise in non-farm employment have driven productivity up and the number of farms down.
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The supply of cheap agricultural labour dries up and a rising number of workers take jobs in the service sector, where productivity improvements are more difficult to achieve.
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