Summary This paper examines the agricultural science needs of small farms. The green revolution successfully negotiated two tightropes: agricultural productivity increases were larger than the fall in prices that resulted from producing more food; and output per hectare rose faster than output...

Improved farm technology helps all main groups of the poor - small farmers, farmworkers, other low-wage labour - when it raises labour value-productivity, but raises land and/or water value-productivity faster; and cuts staples prices, but raises smallholders' total factor productivity...

chapter Introducing land reform -- chapter 1 Goals -- chapter 2 Output, efficiency and growth goals: beyond the inverse relationship -- chapter 3 Land reforms: the types, and the classic paradigm -- chapter 4 Tenurial options: Tenancy reform, titling, patrialisation -- chapter 5 The terrible...