DATE: October 1, 2025
SECTOR: Agriculture
SOURCE: Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS)
TOPIC: Global agricultural productivity and new strategies to diagnose and address stagnation
SUMMARY: A flagship report tracking trends in global agricultural productivity and introducing a new model to identify strategies for sustained growth.
DESCRIPTION: Virginia Tech’s 2025 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Report provides a critical assessment of global agricultural productivity growth, warning that innovation in agriculture, expressed as Total Factor Productivity (TFP), is falling dangerously behind the demands placed on farmers and agrifood systems. The report introduces the TFP Growth Frontier, a new diagnostic tool designed to help policymakers, researchers and industry leaders better understand where productivity is plateauing, why it’s happening and what strategies are needed to close the gap. By using the U.S. as a detailed case study, the report underscores the risks of underinvestment and the urgent need for coordinated action to restore long-term productivity gains worldwide.
Access the full report: The Total Factor Productivity Growth Frontier
