Farm size ‐ farm productivity re‐examined: Evidence from rural Egypt

Dyer, Graham

doi:10.1080/03066159108438471

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“…This result, insignificant relationship between average size of parcels and productivity, clearly shows the traditional nature of agricultural practices in the study area. This is because Deolalikar [46] and Dyer [69] stated that this type of relation may hold true in a relatively backward agriculture but it breaks down with the advancements in technology. Similarly, the weak relationship between labor intensity and productivity might be because of the presence of abundant labor power and working time, where time spent in walking from homestead, protecting parcels from wild life and bird attack, and close supervision does not reduce working time of farm activities.…”

Section: Land Fragmentation Parameters (1) Average Distance Of Parcelmentioning

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Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Alemu

Ayele

Berhanu

2017

Advances in Agriculture

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Generally, land fragmentation is a universal trait of all agricultural systems which affects farmland productivity and no one had documented a rural society where there was no land fragmentation. Hence, this study sought to ascertain the effects of land fragmentation on farmland productivity in the highland districts of Northwestern Ethiopia by using cross-sectional data collected from 240 respondents during 2015/16 production seasons and analyzed by using linear and Cobb-Douglass production functions. In land productivity model, 38% of variations in farmland productivity are explained by variations in independent variables including land fragmentation parameters. Average farmland size of 1.25 ha was obtained as minimum size that can generate minimum food and cash requirement of an average family of five adult equivalents. Hence, the government should come up with land use policy and population growth controlling program, which enables determining minimum economic farmland size, improving land productivity, and finding ways to strengthen off-farm activities and livestock sector to absorb more labor and enhance means of generating more income so as to decrease minimum farmland size required.

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Section: Land Fragmentation Parameters (1) Average Distance Of Parcelmentioning

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Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Alemu

Ayele

Berhanu

2017

Advances in Agriculture

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“…However, it is the very issue of labour intensity that raises concerns about the inverse farm size/productivity relationship: small farms may be morè ecient' (at least in terms of output per unit of land) because small farmers have few livelihood alternatives Ð short of asset depletion or disposition Ð but to exploit their own labour and that of their families (Dyer, 1991;Patnaik, 1991). Complicating a simple inverse relationship is the fact that when markets do not function well, large farms, besides having superior access to land, may have superior access to credit, extension services, new technology, irrigation water, and output markets.…”

Section: Farm Size and Productivitymentioning

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Land Tenure and Food Security: Exploring Dynamic Linkages

Maxwell

Wiebe

1999

Development and Change

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Land tenure and food security have each been the subject of extensive Ð but generally separate Ð research in the past. Links between the two issues are now receiving increased attention, yet critical links between them remain unexplored. After a brief review of the two concepts, this article combines both issues within a dynamic framework that recognizes not just the conventional link between access to land and access to food in the short run, but also the recursive link between access to food and the ability to maintain sucient resources to meet long-run needs. Such a framework makes explicit the trade-os that poor households may face in bad years between consumption and investment in non-labour assets. Perhaps less intuitively, it also suggests that the need for self-insurance may force poor households to choose less ecient crops or production strategies than wealthier households even in good years. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of these results for equity, eciency, research, and policy.

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“…The implications of these findings for agrarian reform added a great deal of fuel to the fire. Higher factor use intensities on small farms were clearly a phenomenon that demanded study (Mazumdar 1965;Dyer 1991). …”

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“…), but to higher land use and cropping intensities. While differential factor prices, property rights, and tenure play a part in this phenomenon, the inverse relationship reflects "the desperate struggle of poor and marginal peasants to scratch a bare subsistence" (Dyer 1991). This Indian debate sparked many similar debates and studies in the rest of the world, in which many explanations have been proffered for the inverse relationship, some by those advocating for land reform and others by those who question its wisdom.…”

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Productivity, Technical Efficiency, and Farm Size in Paraguayan Agriculture

Masterson

2007

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may ABSTRACTThis essay assesses the relationship between farm size and productivity. Both parametric and nonparametric methods are used to derive efficiency measures. Smaller farms are found to have higher net farm income per hectare, and to be more technically efficient, than larger farms.JEL Classifications: Q12, O12

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Farm size ‐ farm productivity re‐examined: Evidence from rural Egypt

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Effects of Land Fragmentation on Productivity in Northwestern Ethiopia

Land Tenure and Food Security: Exploring Dynamic Linkages

Productivity, Technical Efficiency, and Farm Size in Paraguayan Agriculture

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