Urbanization and farm size in Asia and Africa: Implications for food security and agricultural research

By W. Masters, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, C. Haan, P. Hazell, T. Jayne, Magnus Jirström, T. Reardon. 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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• Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries (2015, background): “…along new and improved roadways may concentrate populations and enable agricultural transformation and intensification; where this occurs in agriculturally favourable areas a depopulation of hinterlands may reduce pressures on forests (Angelsen and Rudel, 2013; Masters et al., 2013; Rudel, 2013).”
• Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands (2016, background): “Beyond the direct loss of cropland, the growth of MURs has other important implications for food systems, especially for smallholder farmers (33).”
• The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World (2020, background): “Recent trends indicate that SSA will continue to experience declining farm size, while Asia is showing signs of farm consolidation (Jayne et al. 2014; Masters et al. 2013; Otsuka and Place 2014).”
• Africa’s Unfolding Economic Transformation (2018, background): “A growing proportion of African farmers are enjoying better access to inputs and markets, and the share of the population living in truly remote locations is declining rapidly (Masters et al., 2013).”
• Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium-scale farms (2016, background): “Rising rural population densities across sub-Saharan Africa, coupled with rural populations that retain family farms regardless of their primary source of employment, suggest an evolution toward smaller farm sizes across the region (Jayne et al., 2003; Masters et al., 2013).”
• The puzzle of East and Southeast Asia's persistent smallholder (2016, background): “…that large, non-family-owned farms cannot wield, even in developed economies such as Japan: “For most field crops, the most cost-effective farm sizes are those cultivated by resident farmers in a household enterprise, relying primarily on self-motivated family members” (Masters et al., 2013: 158).”
• Predation by small mammalian carnivores in rural agro-ecosystems: An undervalued ecosystem service? (2017, background): “As farm sizes in Africa are likely to continue to decline and further fragment the landscape (Masters et al., 2013), there is a real risk of further natural habitat loss, trophic collapse and loss of potential ecosystem services provided by small carnivores (Dobson et al., 2006).”
• The Number, Size, and Distribution of Farms, Smallholder Farms, and Family Farms Worldwide (2016, background): “Masters et al. (2013) argue that there is more of a distinction to be made among regions, based on data and projections on population in urban and rural areas from 1950 through 2050.”