A better and more complete understanding of family farms is urgently needed to guide policy makers’ efforts towards … 608 million farms in the world. Rough estimates also indicate that more than 90 percent of these farms are family farms … terms. We underscore the importance of not referring to family farms and small farms (i.e., those of less than 2 hectares …

country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …, and family farms, led by the Ministry of Agrarian Development. Our purpose is to examine the role that farm size may have … in Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth, which has accelerated at one of the world's fastest …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …