In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale -- a premise supported by the often observed phenomenon that staple cereal yields decline as the scale of production increases. This paper explores a research design conundrum that encourages...
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2012/09/01
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2012/09/01
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Should African rural development strategies depend on smallholder farms ? an exploration of the inverse productivity hypothesis
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farm size
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