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Agricultural productivity growth in Brazil: Large and small farms excel
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-04-01)
The long-standing debate on the relationship between farm size and productivity has been generally limited by the range of farm sizes evaluated and the definition of productivity. In this paper we use data from three ...
Can unobserved heterogeneity in farmer ability explain the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity?
(Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia da FGV, 2003-03-27)
The well-known inverse relationship between farm-size and productivity is usually explained in terms of diminishing returns with respect to land and other inputs coupled with various types of market frictions that prevent ...
Farm typology incorporating actual land use: a low-data input approach for the Guanacaste province, Costa Rica
(CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica). Atlantic Zone Programme Agricultural University Wageningen, Wageningen (Países Bajos) Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, San José (Costa Rica), 1996-04)
The USTED methodology is a linear programming model, which supports land use planning as regional planning of agricultural lands. Although it is focused at the regional level, it does include the farm level as well and it ...
Brazilian Agriculture: Is it all about the Large Farms?
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-04-01)
Too often Brazil's agricultural sector is associated primarily with farms operating thousands of hectares in the vast savannah known as the cerrado. Our purpose is to demonstrate that this association is inaccurate, that ...
Development of designs to improve efficiency of OFR
(CIMMYT, 2012)
Orchid bees as bio-indicators for organic coffee farms in Costa Rica: Does farm size affect their abundance?
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2006)