Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the share of the world's food produced by
family farms and by farms of different sizes. This paper updates estimates of the number of …

Movement of labor from agriculture to nonagriculture and the associated increase in farm
size through structural transformation are at the core of economic development. We conduct …

Agricultural mechanization and custom machine services have developed rapidly in China,
which can influence rice production efficiency in the future. We calculate technical efficiency …

We combine nationally representative household and labor force survey data from 1992 to
2016 to provide a detailed description of rural labor market evolution and how it relates to …

The relationship between farm size and productivity is a recurrent topic in development
economics, almost as old as the discipline itself. This paper emphasizes the importance of …

Whether and how quickly farmers adapt to a changing climate is of paramount importance to
understanding the potential impacts of climate change on agriculture. Yet the literature on …

While there is growing recognition of the positive role played by organic farming in the
reduction of the negative externalities due to conventional agriculture, there is uncertainty …

Meta-regressions of around 1000 cases published over the period 1997–2018 suggest that
the direction of the relationship between land area and agricultural performance strongly …

Monitoring smallholder agricultural productivity growth, one of the targets of the Sustainable
Development Goals, rests on accurate measures of crop production and land area. Existing …

Promoting smallholder production systems as a growth and poverty‐reduction strategy
versus supporting an institutional framework that enables endogenous and voluntary …