2016
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12264
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The political economy of agriculture for development today: the “small versus large” scale debate revisited

Abstract: The role of agriculture in economic development and the development politics of promoting smallholder versus large-scale agriculture have both been at the center of a long-lasting and controversial debate. Using an innovative methodology which combines a value chain approach with input-output-analysis, the growth multipliers and productivity of both farm types in Guatemala are analyzed. Results show that smallholder agriculture has the same potential to stimulate output growth as large-scale agriculture. Small… Show more

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“…Shared obstacles across countries include lack of access to credit, isolation from domestic and foreign markets, and non‐integration into supply chains. How smallholders fare in this bimodal model of global agricultural between big and small capital remains a subject of academic debate (Birner & Resnick, ; Durr, ; Goldsmith, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Shared obstacles across countries include lack of access to credit, isolation from domestic and foreign markets, and non‐integration into supply chains. How smallholders fare in this bimodal model of global agricultural between big and small capital remains a subject of academic debate (Birner & Resnick, ; Durr, ; Goldsmith, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hence, early adopters benefit, at least temporarily, while late adopters and non-adopters never benefit. However, Dürr (2016) proved the opposite showing that smallholder production multipliers are as strong as those of large farmers' and even stronger, but this is a very sparse opinion. We recall that demand is highly inelastic, and in the case of increasing supply, a disproportionately high decrease in prices can be observed, and ultimately, it turns out to be disadvantageous for revenue.…”
Section: Prices-cost Squeeze In the Treadmill Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We calculated both the price gap and the productivity gap using an input-output approach (Hicks-Moorsteen TFP index, cf. Coelli, Prasada Rao, Donnell, & Battese, 2005;Dürr 2016) with reference to the EU FADN input-output matrix for representative farms of different economic size (SO) ranges (27 EU countries, 2004-2012. We use the fol-lowing proxies (10-11) which make it possible to express PCS and the productivity gap in monetary units (€).…”
Section: Proxiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One of the central questions for developing states has been whether large farms or small farms should play a dominant role in economic development (Durr, ; Hazell, Poulton, Wiggins, & Dorward, ; Poulton, Dorward, & Kydd, ; Wiggins, Kirsten, & Llambi, ). Advocates for smallholder farming argue that they serve as an engine for broader economic growth.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%