African Agriculture in 50Years: Smallholders in a Rapidly Changing World?

By Paul Collier, Stefan Dercon. 2014

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. T. Jayne
2. I. Scoones
3. K. Giller
4. P. Woodhouse
5. N. Sitko
6. Gert Jan Veldwisch
7. K. Descheemaeker
8. R. Hall

In Soil Science

1. K. Giller
2. I. Scoones
3. P. Woodhouse
4. K. Descheemaeker
5. R. Hall
6. D. Tsikata
7. C. Vaughan
8. P. Roudier

Citations in the corpus

• Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects (2017, background): “A major constraint in rural areas is that the workforce typically lacks the training to perform high-skill tasks (Collier & Dercon, 2014).”
• Revisiting the Farm Size‐Productivity Relationship Based on a Relatively Wide Range of Farm Sizes: Evidence from Kenya (2019, unknown): “However, recent studies have questioned the viability of a smallholder-led growth strategy in Africa (e.g., Collier and Dercon 2014; Dercon and Gollin 2014).”
• Trade-offs between environment and livelihoods: Bridging the global land use and food security discussions (2017, unknown): “Very small farms appear hindered in accessing commercial supply chains due to a lack of entrepreneurial capacities and assets for risk-taking behaviors, and to the logistics of marketing (Barrett 2008, Neven et al. 2009, Collier and Dercon 2014).”
• De-mystifying family farming: Features, diversity and trends across the globe (2015, background): “Hence, the best way to support farm families may be to invest in job creation for those who exit agriculture, and in improvements in the agricultural sector to increase productivity on remaining farms (Losch and Fréguin-Gresh, 2013; Collier and Dercon, 2014).”
• African farmer-led irrigation development: re-framing agricultural policy and investment? (2017, background): “…of farmers’ irrigation initiatives are that they not only challenge stereotypes of small-scale agriculture as ‘stagnant’ and destined to decline (Collier and Dercon, 2014), but also pose questions about the political and economic dynamics of agrarian change driven ‘from below’, and how these…”
• Plantations, outgrowers and commercial farming in Africa: agricultural commercialisation and implications for agrarian change (2017, background): “Debates continue about the relative merits of large and small farms, their implications for labour absorption, rural livelihoods and growth in Africa’s farm sector (Lipton 2009; World Bank 2008; Collier and Dercon 2014; cf. Deininger and Byerlee 2011; Baglioni and Gibbon 2013).”