The Impact of Growth in Small Commercial Farm Productivity on Rural Poverty Reduction

John W. Mellor and Sohail J. Malik

World Development, 2017, vol. 91, issue C, 1-10

Abstract: Our core thesis is that in both low- and middle-income countries, rapid growth in agricultural production and income among small commercial farmers is the dominant means of reducing rural poverty. This effect is generated from increased expenditures from smaller commercial farmers on the poor, labor-intensive, non-tradable, rural non-farm sector, thereby increasing incomes for the rural non-farm population and reducing poverty levels.

Keywords: agricultural productivity; poverty alleviation; small commercial farms; rural non-farm sector; Pakistan; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.09.004

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