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Author : Johan Van Zyl,Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize,Hans P. Binswanger,Colin G. Thirtle
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultura - Sudafrica
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Colin Thirtle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1096671883
November 1995 Commercial farms in South Africa could become significantly more efficient if they became smaller. The government could encourage that trend by removing policies and distortions that favor large over small farms. Drawing on international evidence, van Zyl, Binswanger, and Thirtle discuss the sources of economies of scale. Using representative farm-level survey data for South Africa's six major grain-producing areas and one irrigation area for the period 1975 - 90, they: * Describe the structure of South African agriculture, detailing the distribution of farm sizes and results from previous studies of farm-size efficiency. * Analyze the evidence on scale efficiency in the former homelands. * Analyze the relationship between farm size and efficiency in commercial farming and discuss how policy affects that relationship. Clearly policy has a crucial impact on the relationship between farm size and efficiency. They find that: * Farms in the former homelands seem to be scale-inefficient, which is unsurprising, given the historical lack of access to support services and infrastructure, policies that discriminate against farmers in the homelands, and the extremely fragmented and limited land-use rights of farmers there. * There is an inverse relationship between farm size and efficiency in the commercial farming areas for the range of farms analyzed, regardless what method is used. This inverse relationship seems to become stronger and more accentuated as policy distortions -- which tend to favor large farms over small ones -- are removed. * Large farms tend to use more capital-intensive methods of production, while smaller farms are more labor-intensive. And managerial ability seems to be better on larger farms. There is an inverse relationship between farm size and efficiency in South African agriculture despite South Africa's history of policies favoring relatively large mechanized farms. Clearly, efficiency gains could be significant if commercial farms became smaller. To encourage that trend, policies and distortions that favor large farms over small should be removed. This paper -- a product of the Office of the Director, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to design appropriate strategies for land reform.
Author : Thirtle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1404957507
Author : Sergio Gomez y Paloma,Laura Riesgo,Kamel Louhichi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9783030421489
This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and social resilience could produce positive impacts on food security and nutrition at a number of levels. In addition to the role of small farmers as food suppliers, the book considers their role as consumers and their level of nutrition security. It investigates the link between agriculture and nutrition in order to better understand how agriculture affects human health and dietary patterns. Given the importance of smallholdings, strategies to increase their productivity are essential to improving food and nutrition security, as well as food diversity.
Author : Colin G. Thirtle,Robert M. Townsend,Johan Van Zyl
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize,Camille Bourguignon,Rogerius Johannes Eugenius van den Brink
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821379622
Despite 250 years of land reform all over the World, important land inequalities remain, especially in Latin America and Southern Africa.While in these countries, there is near consensus on the need for redistribution, much controversy persists around how to redistribute land peacefully and legally, often blocking progress on implementation.This book focuses on the "how" of land redistribution in order to forge greater consensus among land reform practitioners and enable them to make better choices on the mechanisms of land reform. Reviews and case studies describe and analyze the al.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786121412533
In Poland, present policies are aimed at promoting large, mechanized farms over smaller family farms. These policies are based on the perception that large farms offer real economies of scale. But international evidence indicates that such large, mechanized farms are generally less efficient and use less labor than small family farms. The authors analyzed the relationship between farm size and efficiency in Polish agriculture. They used two different methods to do so. First they determined differences in total factor productivity between small and large farms. They then used Data Envelope Analysis to estimate scale efficiencies. The results show that, for the sample of farms analyzed: 1) large farms are not more efficient than smaller farms; and 2) smaller farms are more labor-intensive than larger farms. These results have important policy implications for farm restructuring in Poland and other transition economies facing similar issues and conditions.
Author : Ajuruchukwu Obi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789086867042
The Southern Africa region has experienced more than its fair share of problems in recent years. Just when it seemed that the hardships wrought by the devastating cycle of droughts and floods of 2000 to 2002 were a thing of the past, other problems emerged. At one level, there have been the weak and often erratic governance mechanisms and political crises in some countries of the region, leading to severe disruptions in agricultural production to the point that supplies and markets have virtually disappeared. At another level, socio-cultural rigidities have often militated against the adoption of efficient farming practices, resulting in sub-optimal choices that lock smallholders into a low equilibrium trap. In the face of the disappearing supplies and missing markets, these have engendered hyper-inflationary trends of a magnitude unknown anywhere else in the world. But in the midst of all this apparent dreariness, cases are emerging from which immense lessons can be drawn. This book assembles a collection of research papers based on studies completed in 2008 and 2009 in Southern Africa that examine various dimensions of the institutional constraints small farmers are facing in the region and how they are going about dealing with them. The papers draw from these diverse and polar experiences and present some theoretical and practical insights that should form the basis for more in-depth, country-level, sector-specific analyses, focusing mainly on citrus, horticultures, cotton and livestock. The thematic issues of income inequality, land reform, natural resource management and value chain governance and chain choice, are covered in this book and are expected to be of interest for a wide constituency, including researchers, development practitioners, rural animators, and policy makers.
Author : Barbara Schreiner,Rashid M. Hassan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789048193677
One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, the introduction of the protection of environmental flows, and major shifts in charging for water use and in the provision of free basic water. Over ten years of implementation of these policy and legislative changes mean that valuÂable lessons have already been learned and useful experiences gained in the challenge of effective water resources management and water services provision in a middle income country.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89095745055
Author : Daniel Ayalew Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : OCLC:870687572
Whether the negative relationship between farm size and productivity that is confirmed in a large global literature holds in Africa is of considerable policy relevance. This paper revisits this issue and examines potential causes of the inverse productivity relationship in Rwanda, where policy makers consider land fragmentation and small farm sizes to be key bottlenecks for the growth of the agricultural sector. Nationwide plot-level data from Rwanda point toward a constant returns to scale crop production function and a strong negative relationship between farm size and output per hectare as well as intensity of labor use that is robust across specifications. The inverse relationship continues to hold if profits with family labor valued at shadow wages are used, but disappears if family labor is rather valued at village-level market wage rates. These findings imply that, in Rwanda, labor market imperfections, rather than other unobserved factors, seem to be a key reason for the inverse farm-size productivity relationship.
Author : I. Okike
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Agricultural intensification
ISBN : 9291460966
Author : Lungisile Ntsebeza,Ruth Hall
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0796921636
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821364413
Land reform can be divided broadly into land tenure reform (the establishment of secure and formalized property rights in land) and land redistribution (the transfer of land from large to small farmers). This paper therefore is in two parts. The first part focuses on property rights, giving a short narrative of some of the key land tenure and land policy issues. Though these issues remain politically sensitive, a solid consensus is emerging on how to deal with them--but only once the confusion is cleared up surrounding private common property and formal and informal rights. The second part addr.
Author : David R. Lee,Christopher B. Barrett
Publisher : CABI
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0851997112
The need to increase food production, enhance economic growth and reduce poverty in an environmentally sustainable context is an issue of growing importance. This book addresses the linkages and tradeoffs involved in solving such key challenges.