Arbeitspapier
Small farms: Changing structures and roles in economic development
Small farms are the largest employment and small business group among the poor. Their businesses use mostly labor and local resources and face local constraints, but at the same time, they are affected by increasingly complex national and global economic changes, which lead to shifts in optimality and viability of structures and of their business priorities. This paper identifies basic forces of change in the small farm economy, proposes policies that may support productive and socially acceptable transformations, and highlights research priorities. The paper concludes that policies should primarily focus on people´s income opportunities in the rural economy, where small farmers often hold multiple farm and non-farm jobs, rather than be narrowly concerned with viability of the small scale farm enterprise.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy ; No. 204
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
Sustainable Development
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
- Subject
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small farms
structural change
farm size
sustainability
poverty reduction
innovation
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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von Braun, Joachim
Mirzabaev, Alisher
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- von Braun, Joachim
- Mirzabaev, Alisher
- University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Time of origin
- 2015
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