The widely reported claim that smallholders produce 70–80% of the world's food has been a
linchpin of agricultural development policy despite limited empirical evidence. Recent …

We present an extensive literature review exploring the relationships between food
insecurity and rapid biodiversity loss, and the competing methods proposed to address each …

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 …

Small farms constitute most of the world's farms and are a central focus of sustainable
agricultural development. However, the relationship between farm size and production …

For economic development to succeed in Africa in the next 50 years, African agriculture will
have to change beyond recognition. Production will have to have increased massively, but …

We show that labor market transaction costs explain why the smallest farms are more
efficient than slightly larger farms in most low-income countries and that increases in …

This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship
(IR), which states that land productivity decreases as plot size increases. While existing …

Land reforms are laws that are intended, and likely, to cut poverty by raising the poor's share
of land rights. That raises questions about property rights as old as moral philosophy, and …

This paper revisits the inverse farm size‐productivity relationship in Kenya. The study makes
two contributions. First, the relationship is examined over a much wider range of farm sizes …

The inverse productivity–size relationship is one of the oldest puzzles in development
economics. Two conventional explanations for the inverse relationship have emerged in the …