Farm size plays a critical role in agricultural sustainability. This may have far-reaching
consequences for the economic and environmental performance of agricultural production …

Under the current scenario of rapid human population increase, achieving efficient and
productive agricultural land use while conserving biodiversity is a global challenge. There is …

Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the share of the world's food produced by
family farms and by farms of different sizes. This paper updates estimates of the number of …

Small farms constitute most of the world's farms and are a central focus of sustainable
agricultural development. However, the relationship between farm size and production …

Numerous sources provide evidence of trends and patterns in average farm size and
farmland distribution worldwide, but they often lack documentation, are in some cases out of …

Summary 2014 was the United Nations' International Year of Family Farming, yet the
importance of family farming for global food security is still surprisingly poorly documented …

Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to …

Despite progress, multiple burdens of malnutrition persist worldwide: 795 million people are
hungry more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies and over 2 billion …

For economic development to succeed in Africa in the next 50 years, African agriculture will
have to change beyond recognition. Production will have to have increased massively, but …

We show that labor market transaction costs explain why the smallest farms are more
efficient than slightly larger farms in most low-income countries and that increases in …