income needs collaborative research on technology evaluation, technology targeting, and policy options. So, using high frequency data on productivity, input costs, harvest prices and poverty can we say: (1) whether increased agricultural productivity in cereal systems has reduced regional disparities in level of poverty over time; (2) whether regional disparities in terms of cultivation cost and profitability in cereal systems have reduced over time, and; (3) whether gaps between potential, attainable (long term experiments) and district average yield have reduced over the years. 2 Trends in poverty and production