Chapter 65 Farm Size

By Robert Eastwood, M. Lipton, A. Newell. 2010

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Climate Smart Agriculture? Assessing the Adaptation Implications in Zambia (2015, background): “See Binswanger et al. (1995) and Eastwood et al. (2010) for a comprehensive review of the IR debate.”
• The future of farming: Who will produce our food? (2021, background): “India, like its South Asian neighbours, is often considered a nation of smallholders that seems to have escaped the trend towards farm consolidation (Eastwood et al., 2010).”
• Effects of rising rural population density on smallholder agriculture in Kenya (2014, background): “…the brightest prospects for rapid and sustained reductions in poverty and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa (Lipton, 2005; World Bank, 2007; Hazell et al., 2007; Byerlee and de Janvry, 2009; Haggblade, 2009; Christiaensen et al., 2011; Eastwood et al., 2010; Headey et al., 2010; Wiggins et al., 2010).”
• The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide (2016, background): “Eastwood, Lipton, and Newell (2010) considered unweighted averages of the log of mean farm size by region from the 1950 to 1990 rounds of the agricultural census; they found that the average farm size increased and the number of small farms decreased in Europe and North America, while average farm…”
• The roles of land tenure reforms and land markets in the context of population growth and land use intensification in Africa (2014, background): “Here, we only review studies that have been undertaken in Africa and refer the reader to Binswanger et al. (1995), Eastwood et al. (2010) for more comprehensive reviews of the literature.”
• A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000 (2014, background): “Apart from Argentina and Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Uruguay also had very unequal distributions following the colonial land grab (Eastwood et al., 2010).”
• Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education (2016, background): “According to Boserup (1965), Binswanger and McIntire (1987), and Binswanger and Rosenzweig (1986), increasing population pressure results in increasing intensification of land use and in growing pressure for security of land tenure (Eastwood et al., 2010).”
• De-mystifying family farming: Features, diversity and trends across the globe (2015, background): “Whilst the term ‘family farm’ is commonly used both in the scientific and popular literature, there is no common definition to characterise family farms across the globe (Hill, 1993; Eastwood et al., 2010).”
• The Rise of Large Farms in Land Abundant Countries: Do They Have a Future? (2011, unknown): “3 In most industrialized countries, a key factor contributing to growing farm sizes has been rising wages in the nonagricultural sector that led farm operators to seek ways to attain incomes comparable to what they can obtain in other sectors of the economy (Eastwood et al. 2010).”