Should African Rural Development Strategies Depend on Smallholder Farms? An Exploration of the Inverse-Productivity Hypothesis
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 scaleāa premise supported by the often observ...
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Wiley
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21414 |