This paper draws on cross-country census data to study how agricultural productivity gaps have evolved over the last four decades. We find little tendency for gaps to decline on average despite global ...

With nearly half a billion in ag research funding at stake, according to data from former USAID contractor Jordan ...

Kansas State University has been issued stop-work orders on USAID-funded agricultural research at two innovation labs, valued at up to $137 million.

Climate change and flagging investment in research and development has U.S. agriculture facing its first productivity ...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in its 2023 farm bill primer, estimates baseline spending for ag research will take up $1.3 billion of the total $709 billion farm bill dollars. House and ...

Nigeria has ended a four-decade gap in evaluating its agricultural research system, marking a major step toward revitalising research institutes and colleges of agriculture nationwide. The ...