Holdings: Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis

Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis

In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo econom...

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Main Authors:	Larson, Donald F., Otsuka, Keijiro, Matsumoto, Tomoya, Kilic, Talip
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACCOUNTING AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL LABOR AGRICULTURAL POLICIES AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE AGRICULTURAL PRICES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURAL SECTORS ANIMALS AVERAGE YIELDS CEREAL YIELDS CGIAR CHEMICAL FERTILIZER CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS CLIMATE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE COMMERCIAL FARMING CROP CROP PRODUCTION CROP SEASONS CROPS CULTIVATED LAND DECISION MAKING DEFORESTATION DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DRIVERS ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIES OF SCALE ELASTICITY FAMILY FARMS FAMILY LABOR FAO FARM FARM INCOME FARM INCOMES FARM PRODUCTIVITY FARM PROFITABILITY FARM SIZE FARM YIELDS FARMER FARMERS FARMING FARMING HOUSEHOLDS FARMING METHODS FARMING SYSTEMS FARMS FEED FERTILIZER FERTILIZER USE FOOD POLICY FOOD PRICE VOLATILITY FOOD PRICES FOOD SECURITY FREE MARKETS GLOBAL FOOD GLOBAL FOOD PRICES GRAIN GRAINS GREEN REVOLUTION GROWING SEASON GROWTH THEORY HERBICIDES HUMAN CAPITAL HUNGER HYBRID SEED HYBRID SEEDS HYBRIDS IFPRI INTERCROPPING INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LIVELIHOODS LIVING STANDARDS MAIZE MAIZE FARMERS MAIZE PRODUCTION MAIZE YIELDS MOTIVATION NATURAL ENDOWMENTS OPTIMIZATION ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OUTPUTS PESTICIDE PLANTING POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS PRICE VOLATILITY PRODUCE PRODUCTION FUNCTION PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS PRODUCTION INCREASES RETURNS TO SCALE RICE RICE YIELDS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL LABOR SAFETY SAFETY NETS SCALE EFFECTS SHADOW PRICES SMALL FARMERS SMALL-SCALE FARMERS SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE SOIL CHARACTERISTICS SOIL FERTILITY SOILS STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUBSISTENCE CROPS SURPLUS LABOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE WEALTH WHEAT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/09/16707613/african-rural-development-strategies-depend-smallholder-farms-exploration-inverse-productivity-hypothesis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12026

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12026

Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse Productivity Hypothesis

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