What do we really know about the number and distribution of farms and family farms in the world? Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2014

By S. Lowder, Jakob Skoet, Saumya Singh. 2014

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. T. Jayne
2. M. Muyanga
3. Jordan Chamberlin
4. N. Sitko
5. W. Anseeuw
6. Ayala Wineman
7. A. Chapoto
8. C. Ragasa

In Sociology and Political Science

1. F. Yeboah
2. Jordan Chamberlin
3. T. Jayne
4. M. Muyanga

In Soil Science

1. T. Jayne
2. M. Muyanga
3. Jordan Chamberlin
4. N. Sitko
5. F. Yeboah
6. W. Anseeuw

Citations in the corpus

• Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium-scale farms (2016, background): “This perspective does not account for the possibility that under certain conditions, some groups that are 3 See Lipton (2009), Bezemer and Hazell (2006), Huang and Ding (2015), Masters et al. (2013), and Lowder et al. (2014).”
• The impact of farm size on agricultural sustainability (2019, background): “58 China is a typical region still dominated by smallholder farms, accounting for 35% 59 of the 570 million world farms in 2014 (Lowder et al., 2014).”