Are Local Investor Farmers Making Small-Scale Farmers More Productive and Commercialized? Evidence from Nigeria
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Are Local Investor Farmers Making Small-Scale Farmers More Productive and Commercialized? Evidence from Nigeria
TS Jayne*, M. Muyanga*, S. Liverpool-Tasie*, T. Awokuse*, A. B. Aromolaran+
APRA Annual Research Review and Planning Workshop
Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), Bellville, South Africa
January 30–31, 2018
INTRODUCTION
- Recent evidence suggests that changing structure of land ownership in sub-Saharan Africa
- The rapid rise of a medium‐scale farming
- In Nigeria, data from farm listing exercise carried out in September, 2017 and key informant interviews show rapid investment by medium-scale investor farmers in the country
- The objectives of this study is to understand how these investor farmers are influencing the behaviour and welfare of the millions of small-scale farm households around them
- Are they helping smallholders to become more productive and commercialized, or are they making it more difficult for them to do so?
* Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
+ Faculty of Agriculture, AdekunleAjasinUniversity, Ondo State, Nigeria