Agricultural Strategies and Agrarian Structure

Abstract

To declare that “small is beautiful” is a rhetorical indulgence. To emphasize that, for the great majority of farm units in developing countries, “small is inevitable” is to recognize a fact that derives from a country’s structural and demographic characteristics. Because farm populations continue to grow while the scope for expanding area under cultivation increasingly is limited, the trend will be toward smaller farm units in many low-income developing countries…