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Challenging Small-scale Farming, A Non-parametric Analysis of the (Inverse) Relationship Between Farm Productivity and Farm Size in Burundi
Verschelde, Marijn; D'Haese, Marijke F.C.; Vandamme, Ellen - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011
We use a nonparametric estimation of the production function to investigate the relation- ship between farm … productivity and farming scale in poor smallholder agricultural systems in the north of Burundi. Burundi is one of the poorest … Burundi. Four production models were specified each with different control variables. For the relatively small farms, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009326155
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Commodity Payments, Farm Business Survival, and Farm Size Growth
Key, Nigel D.; Roberts, Michael J. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2007
In the last 25 years, U.S. crop farms have steadily declined in number and grown in average size, as production has shifted to larger operations. Larger farms tend to receive more commodity program payments because most payments are tied to a farm’s current or historical production, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546873
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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills
Thapa, Sridhar - 2007
This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445117
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Is small still beautiful? A comparative study of rice farm size and productivity in China and India
Wang, Jianying; Chen, Kevin Z.; Das Gupta, Sunipa; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 7 (2015) 3, pp. 484-509
Purpose – The farm size-productivity relationship has long been the subject of debate among development economists. Few studies address this issue for China, and those that do only with outdated data sets poorly representing the current situation after the past decade of rapid change, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014689716
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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills
Thapa, Sridhar - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007
This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039196
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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills
Thapa, Sridhar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619483
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Does size of operated area matter? Evidence from Malawi's agricultural production
Matchaya, Greenwell C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between farm size and agricultural productivity using data from Malawi. This paper has examined the relationship using ordinary least squares regression with heteroskedasticity consistent covariance matrix (HC3) standard errors having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837380
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New facts for old debates: Farm size and productivity in US agriculture
Temel, Tugrul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
nonparametric regression method is applied to detect ex-post geographical patterns in changes in farm size and productivity. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148006
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Is small still beautiful? : a comparative study of rice farm size and productivity in China and India
Wang, Jianying; Chen, Kevin Z.; Das Gupta, Sunipa; … - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 7 (2015) 3, pp. 484-509
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405848
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A revisit of farm size and productivity : empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria
Omotilewa, Oluwatoba J.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Muyanga, Milu; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 146 (2021), pp. 1-15
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