Can Small Farmers Survive, Prosper, or be the Key Channel to Cut Mass Poverty?

By M. Lipton. 2006

130 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. C. Poulton
2. A. Dorward
3. Christopher B. Barrett
4. N. Sitko
5. T. Jayne

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. K. Otsuka
2. Christopher B. Barrett
3. T. Jayne
4. A. Dorward
5. C. Poulton
6. J. Kydd
7. Marc F. Bellemare
8. N. Sitko

Citations in the corpus

• Structural transformation or elite land capture? The growth of “emergent” farmers in Zambia (2014, background): “This smallholder-led commercialization trajectory underpins the economic structural transformation experienced in many Asian countries (Mellor, 1976; Johnston and Kilby, 1975; Lipton, 2006).”
• The impact of farm size on agricultural sustainability (2019, background): “Smallholders can survive and grow 50 because poverty decreases (Lipton, 2006), but small-scale farming can present a barrier 51 for the sustainable development of agriculture, especially for countries with 52 smallholders dominated.”
• Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship (2009, background): “See for example Lipton (2005) or the papers presented at the June 2005 joint IFPRI and ODI workshop on ‘‘The Future of Small Farms” at <http://www.ifpri.org/events/seminars/2005/20050626SmallFarms.htm>.”
• The Future of Small Farms: New Directions for Services, Institutions and Intermediation (2010, background): “…sustained intensification of small farm production of staple food commodities providing the greatest potential for initial mass poverty reduction (see for example IFAD 2001; Diao et al. 2003; Dorward et al. 2004b; Lipton 2005) but achievements in this under different policy regimes have been mixed.”
• Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse-Productivity Hypothesis (2012, background): “Lipton (2006) argues that emphasizing smallholder development partly compensates for policies in rich and poor countries that are, on balance, urban-biased.”