Africa's changing farm size distribution patterns: the rise of medium-scale farms

By T. Jayne, Jordan Chamberlin, L. Traub, N. Sitko, M. Muyanga, F. Yeboah, W. Anseeuw, A. Chapoto, Ayala Wineman, C. Nkonde and 1 more. 2016

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This study was presented at the 29th Triennial International Conference of Agricultural Economists, August 13, 2015, Milan, Italy.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Harvesting Prosperity: Technology and Productivity Growth in Agriculture (2019, background): “In many parts of Africa, traditional tenure systems in which local inhabitants have user rights to communally owned land are giving way to formal titling systems (Jayne et al. 2016).”
The Drivers of Maize Area Expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa. How Policies to Boost Maize Production Overlook the Interests of Smallholder Farmers (2020, unknown): “…others, Jayne et al. based on nationally representative data that suggest a fast growing, but underreported number of medium scale farmers (owning between 5–100 hectares) across Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, that outweighs the land covered by national and foreign international farms [33].”
Africa’s Evolving Employment Trends (2018, background): “Jayne et al. (2016) also show that urban households control 15–45 per cent of the land on farms over 20 hectares in size, suggesting a growing proportion of urban-based investor farmers in many African countries.”
Revisiting the Farm Size‐Productivity Relationship Based on a Relatively Wide Range of Farm Sizes: Evidence from Kenya (2019, unknown): ““Mediumscale” farm landholdings of five to 100 hectares now account for a substantial and growing share of African farmland in many countries (Jayne et al. 2016).1 Major concerns have arisen as to whether labor-intensive small-scale farms are being marginalized in the process (Anseeuw et al. 2016).”
Trade-offs between environment and livelihoods: Bridging the global land use and food security discussions (2017, unknown): “The dynamics and outcomes strongly differ across regions and countries, pointing either to further reduction in average farm size, or to a consolidation, with manifold prospects (Jayne et al. 2016).”
Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa (2019, background): “La multiplication des exploitations de taille moyenne en Afrique (fermes de 5 à 100 ha) ajoute un élément nouveau au débat sur la taille des exploitations (Jayne, Chamberlin et Headey, 2014 ; Jayne et al., 2016).”
Are medium‐scale farms driving agricultural transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa? (2019, methodology): “The Tanzania surveys are found to underestimate area cultivated of farms 5–20 ha and 20+ ha by roughly 50% (Jayne et al., 2016), so Tanzania figures most likely underestimate the shares of farm output growth.”
Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options? (2021, background): “A new cadre of medium-scale ‘investor farmers’ with land areas of 5–100 ha is expanding rapidly (Jayne et al., 2016).”
Africa’s Unfolding Economic Transformation (2018, background): “, 2014) or they may contribute to increased competition for accessible farmland, which may exacerbate land poverty (Jayne et al., 2016).”