Specialisation and economies of scale or diversification and economies of scope? Assessing different agricultural development pathways

By K. Roest, P. Ferrari, K. Knickel. 2017

327 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8d01dd05897cf0394e4b9364b128925c66e2ff37

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
2. D. Barjolle
3. K. Knickel
4. James Nuttall

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Adanella Rossi
2. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
3. D. Maye
4. J. Kirwan
5. D. Barjolle
6. K. Knickel
7. A. Tregear
8. S. Schneider

Citations in the corpus

• Intercropping—Evaluating the Advantages to Broadacre Systems (2021, background): “The economic rationale of intercropping is based on the theory of economies of scope which arises when a producer can use the same inputs in producing two or more products which lower the cost of producing them separately [2,15].”
• The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe (2019, background): “…loops that strengthen resilience and help to build economies of scope rather than economies of scale (Teece, 1980; Milone and Ventura, 2000; Ashkenazy et al., 2018; De Roest et al., 2018), thus contributing to further cost decreases and subsequent increases in VA/GVP (Panzar and Willig, 1981).”