TY - JOUR
T1 - Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity
AU - Farrokhi, Farid
AU - Pellegrina, Heitor S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/9/1
Y1 - 2023/9/1
N2 - We examine the contribution of trade to the rise of modern agricul-ture, taking into account interactions between trade, input require-ments, and technology adoption. We develop and estimate a new multicountry general equilibrium model that incorporates producers’ choices of which crops to produce and with which technologies at the level of grid cells covering the earth’s surface. We find that trade cost reductions in agricultural inputs and the international transmission of productivity growth in the agricultural input sector since the 1980s in-duced large shifts from traditional, labor-intensive technologies to mod-ern, input-intensive ones, with important global and distributional implications for productivity and welfare.
AB - We examine the contribution of trade to the rise of modern agricul-ture, taking into account interactions between trade, input require-ments, and technology adoption. We develop and estimate a new multicountry general equilibrium model that incorporates producers’ choices of which crops to produce and with which technologies at the level of grid cells covering the earth’s surface. We find that trade cost reductions in agricultural inputs and the international transmission of productivity growth in the agricultural input sector since the 1980s in-duced large shifts from traditional, labor-intensive technologies to mod-ern, input-intensive ones, with important global and distributional implications for productivity and welfare.
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U2 - 10.1086/724319
DO - 10.1086/724319
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158167342
SN - 0022-3808
VL - 131
SP - 2509
EP - 2555
JO - Journal of Political Economy
JF - Journal of Political Economy
IS - 9
ER -