Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size, Productivity and Sustainability

By P. Woodhouse. 2010

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious (2013, background): “…of other examples of contestation within contemporary development agronomy relating to integrated pest management (IPM) (Orr and Ritchie, 2004; Van Huis and Meerman, 1997), bio-fortification (Dawe et al., 2002; Pfeiffer and McClafferty, 2007) and agro-ecology (Altieri, 2002; Woodhouse, 2010).”
Peasant-driven agricultural growth and food sovereignty (2014, background): “According to some observers the price to be paid for this resilience based on distantiation is high: “It seems hard [....] to avoid the conclusion that new peasants’ ‘autonomy’ from markets [...] is to be achieved by relative poverty of income” (Woodhouse, 2010:418).”
Agrarian political economy and modern world capitalism: the contributions of food regime analysis (2016, background): “…is currently used for agricultural production (Weis 2013, chapter 4), a position that requires radical changes in diets, especially away from current and growing levels of meat consumption; more sceptical interrogations of this belief are provided by, inter alios, Woodhouse (2010); Jansen (2014).”
Co-innovation of family farm systems: A systems approach to sustainable agriculture (2014, background): “Viability of family farming is strongly linked to labour productivity and opportunity costs of labour in the wider economy (Woodhouse, 2010; Van der Ploeg, 2008).”
De-mystifying family farming: Features, diversity and trends across the globe (2015, background): “According to the inverse relationship hypothesis, the land productivity of small sized farms is greater than that of large farms (e.g. Tomich, 1995; Woodhouse, 2010; Li et al., 2013; Collier and Dercon, 2014).”
Adaptation and development pathways for different types of farmers (2019, background): “difficult for a single farmer to justify the labour given the sometimes lower economic returns per ha compared with other farming-systems (Antonini and Argilés-Bosch, 2017; Duffy, 2009; Woodhouse, 2010).”
Energy Intensity of Agriculture and Food Systems (2011, background): “Many scholars have documented greater productivity and resource-use efficiency for smaller farms (102, 103) but have not necessarily focused specifically on energy use.”