IFAD Research Series No. 34 - 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, wh...
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| description | 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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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7fdd9da4-647a-43c6-b250-f408d506213a2022-03-26T21:19:38ZIFAD Research Series No. 34 - Farm size and productivity: Lessons from recent literatureJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:7fdd9da4-647a-43c6-b250-f408d506213aEnglishSymplectic ElementsIFAD2019Gollin, DThis 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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| title | IFAD Research Series No. 34 - Farm size and productivity: Lessons from recent literature |
| title_full | IFAD Research Series No. 34 - Farm size and productivity: Lessons from recent literature |
| title_fullStr | IFAD Research Series No. 34 - Farm size and productivity: Lessons from recent literature |
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