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

Purpose Total factor productivity (TFP) has become a prominent concept in agriculture
economics and policy over the last three decades. The main aim of this paper is to obtain a …

The farm size and productivity debate has been limited by the focus on land or labor
productivity, generally showing respective productivity advantages to smaller or larger sized …

Understanding the determinants of agricultural productivity requires accurate measurement
of crop output and yield. In smallholder production systems across low‐and middle‐income …

Binding resource constraints in many low-and middle-income countries aggravate food
insecurity risk in the face of climate change. To help mitigate such risk and increase food …

Based on a two-round household panel survey conducted in Eastern Uganda, this study
shows that the analysis of the inverse scale-productivity relationship (IR) is highly sensitive …

Women face severe gender-specific constraints and have minimal part in the farm decision-
making systems in sub-Saharan Africa. This leads to additional barriers in the adoption of …

The effect of subsidies on the performance of farms has received a great deal of attention in
the literature, although results are inconclusive. Furthermore, much of the related literature …

The relationship between farm size and productivity has been studied extensively in the
agricultural and development economics literature. However, most of the documented …

The excessive use of fertilizer has resulted in serious environmental degradation and a high
health cost in China. Understanding the reasons for the overuse of fertilizer is critical to the …