Farm size and productivity: lessons from recent literature
This paper considers the relationship between farm size and productivity patterns across countries and within countries. Across countries, there is a weak but positive relationship between farm size and yield. A much stronger positive relationship holds for agricultural output per unit of labour, which is closely correlated with farm size across countries. The inverse farm size-productivity relationship holds true within countries. However, even within countries, there is typically a strong positive relationship between farm size and labour productivity. Considering that hundreds of millions of poor people will remain in smallholder agriculture for decades to come, policy-makers need to consider whether current strategies offer a particularly valuable way to generate agricultural development.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Rome (Italy) IFAD
2018
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| Subjects: | farm size, agricultural productivity, labour productivity, agricultural development, development policies, |
| Online Access: | https://www.ifad.org/documents/38714170/40974017/Research+Series+34.pdf/64a10247-6fdd-e397-b75b-3d45767d956c |
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