Too small to be beautiful? The farm size and productivity relationship in Bangladesh

Gautam, Madhur; Ahmed, Mansur

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.03.013

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“…The average area of cultivated land was approximately 5 acres. Although land transfer has alleviated the problem of scale management to a certain extent, the overall promotion is slow, and the developmental path of land scale management based on land logic is limited [10][11][12]. Therefore, the exploration of other paths to achieve scaled operations is particularly important for agricultural modernization.…”

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What Are the Effects of Participation in Production Outsourcing? Evidence from Chinese Apple Farmers

2018

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Outsourcing, as a productive service, has been widely adopted in industrial production and international trade but less applied in agricultural management. With the advancement of agricultural labor division and specialization, outsourcing is becoming one of the most sustained trends in concurrent business. This study used a multiple linear regression and a propensity score matching model to quantify the different effects of participation in production outsourcing on farmers’ apple production efficiency and apple income based on field survey data from 960 apple farmers in the Shandong, Shaanxi, and Gansu Provinces. The results showed that, on average, the outsourcing of apple production increased farmers’ apple production technology efficiency by 5.60%, their labor productivity by 2121.48 kg/person, land productivity by 334.50 kg/mu, capital productivity by 0.05 kg/Yuan, and apple sales revenue by 13,300 Yuan. However, farmers’ net income from apples decreased by an average of 5000 Yuan. The outsourcing of apple production, which is labor-intensive, is constrained by the increase in labor costs, which, in turn, affect the transformation of the apple industry into a service-scale operation driven by the economy of division.

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What Are the Effects of Participation in Production Outsourcing? Evidence from Chinese Apple Farmers

2018

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“…There is an ongoing debate about the relationship between farm size and productivity across the Global South. Studies using household surveys with farmer self-reporting data have reported an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity [49]. Such a relationship would trigger different policies for farm management (e.g., subdivision of larger farms to smaller ones) or agriculture input supply (e.g., fertilizer recommendation based on farm size) to improve agricultural production at the national level [50].…”

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Crowd-Driven and Automated Mapping of Field Boundaries in Highly Fragmented Agricultural Landscapes of Ethiopia with Very High Spatial Resolution Imagery

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Mapping the extent and location of field boundaries is critical to food security analysis but remains problematic in the Global South where such information is needed the most. The difficulty is due primarily to fragmentation in the landscape, small farm sizes, and irregular farm boundaries. Very high-resolution satellite imagery affords an opportunity to delineate such fields, but the challenge remains of determining such boundaries in a systematic and accurate way. In this paper, we compare a new crowd-driven manual digitization tool (Crop Land Extent) with two semi-automated methods (contour detection and multi-resolution segmentation) to determine farm boundaries from WorldView imagery in highly fragmented agricultural landscapes of Ethiopia. More than 7000 one square-kilometer image tiles were used for the analysis. The three methods were assessed using quantitative completeness and spatial correctness. Contour detection tended to under-segment when compared to manual digitization, resulting in better performance for larger (approaching 1 ha) sized fields. Multi-resolution segmentation on the other hand, tended to over-segment, resulting in better performance for small fields. Neither semi-automated method in their current realizations however are suitable for field boundary mapping in highly fragmented landscapes. Crowd-driven manual digitization is promising, but requires more oversight, quality control, and training than the current workflow could allow.

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“…Overall, 54 per cent of our 85 studies claimed so. However, whether or not legally recognised land tenure has an impact on agricultural productivity, or even to what extent that form of tenure contributes to more productive agriculture, remains uncertain [29][30][31][32]. Furthermore, research underlines the particularity of growing agrarian economies of developing countries [33,34].…”

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Relations between Land Tenure Security and Agricultural Productivity: Exploring the Effect of Land Registration

Singirankabo

Ertsen

2020

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This paper reviews the scholarly literature discussing the effect(s) of land registration on the relations between land tenure security and agricultural productivity. Using 85 studies, the paper focuses on the regular claim that land registration’s facilitation of formal documents-based land dealings leads to investment in a more productive agriculture. The paper shows that this claim is problematic for three reasons. First, most studies offer no empirical evidence to support the claim on the above-mentioned effect. Second, there are suggestions that land registration can actually threaten ‘de facto’ tenure security or even lead to insecurity of tenure. Third, the gendered realization of land registration and security may lead to uneven distribution of costs and benefits, but these effects are often ignored. Next to suggesting the importance of land information updating and the efficiency of local land management institutions, this paper also finds that more research with a combined locally-set approach is needed to better understand any relation(s) between land tenure security and agricultural productivity.

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Too small to be beautiful? The farm size and productivity relationship in Bangladesh

Cited by 65 publications

References 45 publications

What Are the Effects of Participation in Production Outsourcing? Evidence from Chinese Apple Farmers

What Are the Effects of Participation in Production Outsourcing? Evidence from Chinese Apple Farmers

Crowd-Driven and Automated Mapping of Field Boundaries in Highly Fragmented Agricultural Landscapes of Ethiopia with Very High Spatial Resolution Imagery

Relations between Land Tenure Security and Agricultural Productivity: Exploring the Effect of Land Registration

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