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022			_a0030-7270
022			_a2043-6866 (Online)
024	8		_ahttps://doi.org/10.1177/00307270241248667
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041			_aeng
100	1		_aHarris, D. _934101
245	1	0	_aLand and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa : _bEvidence from Tanzania
260			_bSAGE Publications, _c2024. _aUnited Kingdom :
500			_aPeer review
500			_aOpen Access
520			_aMaking a living from a small farm is difficult in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we quantify how difficult, using a simple, robust, relation between per capita daily income from farming (FPDI), land per capita and whole-farm net profitability per hectare. This relation allows the calculation of the land area required to generate various levels of household income as a function of farm performance. We use nationally representative household data for Tanzania to investigate the range of whole-farm profitability and to estimate an upper limit for it. For 6818 cases where households with land reported figures for gross crop and livestock revenues and for costs in any of the three years 2009, 2011 or 2013, actual median whole-farm net profitability was only $454/ha/y even without including the opportunity cost of family labour. When those were considered, median net profitability was negative $238/ha/y, i.e. a net loss. The maximum whole-farm profitability achieved was $4485/ha/y without family labour costs and $2742/ha/y with it. We evaluated actual and potential farm performance for their ability to generate a range of values of FPDI up to $10 per person per day. Most farms are not very profitable, particularly when household labour costs are considered, and few would be considered economically prosperous. Our analysis underscores the fact that improving their operations or adopting new technologies alone is unlikely to lift many smallholder farmers out of poverty in developing countries, given typical farm size distributions and reasonable assumptions about the realized economic returns to adoption of currently available agricultural technologies. While continued agricultural R&D investments are certainly worthwhile, such efforts alone will be insufficient to meaningfully address welfare needs of the world's rural poor. This suggests that agricultural development programs should expand their attention to incorporate off-farm and non-farm components of the rural economy.
546			_aText in English
650		7	_aTechnology adoption _2AGROVOC _91287
650		7	_aFarm income _2AGROVOC _99287
650		7	_aSmallholders _2AGROVOC _91763
650		0	_aEconomic growth _2AGROVOC _96448
651		7	_aAfrica South of Sahara _2AGROVOC _91950
651		7	_aUnited Republic of Tanzania _2AGROVOC _94101
700	1		_aMausch, K. _92481
700	1		_aChamberlin, J. _gSustainable Agrifood Systems _8I1706801 _92871
773	0		_tOutlook on Agriculture _dUnited Kingdom : SAGE Publications, 2024 _x0030-7270 _gv 53, no 2, p. 131–141 _wG444646
856	4		_yOpen Access through DSpace _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/34670
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