@article{Sitko:140907,
      recid = {140907},
      author = {Sitko, Nicholas J. and Jayne, Thomas S.},
      title = {The Rising Class of Emergent Farmers: An Effective Model  for Achieving Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction in  Africa?},
      address = {2012-10},
      number = {1093-2016-87740},
      series = {IAPR IWorking Paper},
      pages = {34},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {The relative importance of small versus large farm  enterprises in driving agricultural production growth and  poverty reduction is a central development debate in  Africa. More broadly this debate revolves around questions  of farm land intensification versus extensification as the  most effective means for addressing the persistent issues  of food insecurity and hunger in Africa. On the one  hand,
there is a well‐established literature that argues  that the intensification of smallholder production is the  most effective way of initiating sweeping beneficial  changes in predominantly agrarian
societies. One the other  hand, there is a growing belief that massive constraints in  African smallholder production and marketing systems make  it improbable for very small farms to be engines of  agricultural‐led capital accumulation, land consolation,  farm expansion, and significant production gains. For them  a strategy that seeks to stimulate large‐scale agriculture  can more
effective address the constraints to African food  production.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/140907},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.140907},
}