Bigger Sometimes Is Better When It Comes To Farm Size
Small farms in the developing world do not perform better than large ones if costs and labor are factored in rather than just crop production, says a new study.
Pedro Andrés Garzón Delvaux, EU economist and lead author of the study published in Science Advances, this month, says that the belief that small farms are more productive than big ones has resulted in explicit or implicit support for smallholder-focused development strategies.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), about 90 percent of the world’s 570 million farms are small and most are found in the rural areas of the developing world, but they produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Many small farmers take on other economic activities to add to their small incomes.
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Source: Phys.org (link opens in a new window)
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