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Agricultural Productivity: Supporting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals

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Productivity is generally defined as the ratio of the quantity of outputs produced divided by the quantity of inputs employed in the production process. Agricultural productivity is defined as the ratio of the quantity of agricultural outputs employed to produce an agricultural product to the quantity of agricultural inputs used in the production process. Agricultural productivity growth is of great interest as it is linked to economic growth, especially in developing countries where a significant share of GDP and a significant share of labor is in the agricultural sector. Thus, measuring agricultural productivity is the first step in determining which factor of production (inputs) are over- or underutilized and which measures need to be taken to improve agricultural productivity. This is mainly done by comparison across farms, regions, or countries for selected agricultural products or for the agricultural sector as a whole.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stefanos A. Nastis & Anastasios Michailidis

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

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Nastis, S.A., Michailidis, A. (2020). Agricultural Productivity: Supporting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_4-1

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