Reconsidering Conventional Explanations of the Inverse Productivity-Size Relationship

By Christopher B. Barrett, Marc F. Bellemare, Janet Hou. 2009

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World (2020, background): “Multiple studies, however, have called into question the absolute efficiency advantage of small farms (Helfand and Levine 2004; Barrett et al. 2010).”
From guesstimates to GPStimates : land area measurement and implications for agricultural analysis (2013, positive): “Although some studies, such as Tatwangire and Holden (2013), have attempted to control for measurement error by combining household fixed and random effects, land measurement and associated measurement errors have been consistently noted as a potential issue in estimating the relationship (Lamb, 200”
The State of Family Farms in the World (2016, background): “See for example Barrett et al. (2010), Carletto, Savastano, and Zezza”
The Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity in Agriculture: Evidence from Maize Production in Northern China (2019, positive): “This phenomenon is also found in Sub-Saharan Africa (Barrett, Bellemare, and Hou 2010; Carletto, Savastano, and Zezza 2013; Larson et al. 2014; Desiere and Jolliffe 2018).”
The Effect of Land Access on Youth Employment and Migration Decisions: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (2018, neutral): “Further, as farms intensify agricultural production to overcome land constraints (Ali and Deininger 2015; Barrett et al. 2010; Bellemare 2013; Carletto et al. 2013; Headey et al. 2014; Larson et al. 2014; Sheahan and Barrett 2014), labor-saving technologies may substitute for youth farm labor (Busto”
Revisiting the Farm Size‐Productivity Relationship Based on a Relatively Wide Range of Farm Sizes: Evidence from Kenya (2019, neutral): “The IR relationship often still holds even when land quality and unobserved effects are controlled for using panel data estimation techniques (Carter 1984; Benjamin 1995; Assunç~ao and Braido 2007; Barrett, Bellemare, and Hou 2010; Foster and Rosenzweig 2017).”
Assessing the impacts of land fragmentation and plot size on yields and costs: A translog production model and cost function approach (2018, background): “Under these circumstances, land fragmentation could reduce both land and labor productivity, thus affecting agricultural production (Ali and Deininger, 2014; Barrett et al., 2010; Deininger et al., 2012; Jia and Martin, 2014; Kalantari and Abdollahzadeh, 2008; Schultz, 1953; Tan et al., 2010).”