The Political Economy of Policies for Smallholder Agriculture

By Regina Birner, D. Resnick. 2010

247 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/32eab5c4dffa07eb6faa82e9523a724d55d649df

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Demography

1. Raj Patel
2. Tewodaj Mogues
3. J. Rigg

In Economics and Econometrics

1. Adrian Martin
2. Raj Patel
3. T. Abdoulaye
4. Tewodaj Mogues
5. T. Sikor
6. J. Rigg

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. A. Salamanca
2. Eric C. Thompson
3. Adrian Martin
4. Raj Patel
5. T. Abdoulaye
6. Tewodaj Mogues
7. T. Sikor
8. J. Rigg

Citations in the corpus

• Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (2015, background): “The successes and failures of the Green Revolution in Asia and the increasing importance of Brazil in the global food arena have shown that technologies need to be embedded within an enabling policy and institutional context including better information flow, capacity building and strengthening of m”
• The puzzle of East and Southeast Asia's persistent smallholder (2016, background): “In light of this, perhaps the answer to the persistence of (inefficient) small farms in rapidly growing economies lies not in any hidden economic factor at work but in the political economy of agriculture and farming (see Birner and Resnick, 2010)?”
• Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications of Imposed Innovation for the Wellbeing of Rural Smallholders (2016, background): “For example policies in India, Indonesia and the Philippines in the 204 mid-1960s promoted smallholder-driven agricultural intensification through massive public investments that included price guarantees to raise smallholders’ incomes (Birner & Resnick, 2010).”
• What Determines Public Expenditure Allocations? A Review of Theories, and Implications for Agricultural Public Investment (2012, background): “This theory has not been widely applied to developing-country contexts, but one such case is a study of the Chinese policymaking process relating to the construction of the Three Gorges Dam (Bragg 2003).”
• The Drivers of Maize Area Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa. How Policies to Boost Maize Production Overlook the Interests of Smallholder Farmers (2020, unknown): “…how the green revolution ‘bypassed’ Africa, because of a di ff erent mix of crops and varying climatic and agro-ecologic conditions [51,52] in addition to poor infrastructure, political instability, and a lack of institutional support [53] and the absence of social mobilization in Africa [54].”
• The Long Green Revolution (2013, background): “Around two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia, the continent where the Green Revolution claims its greatest success in terms of yields (Rosset 2000).”