Pastures, crops, and inequality: Questioning the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in Colombia



Título del documento: Pastures, crops, and inequality: Questioning the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in Colombia
Revista: Mundo agrario (La Plata)
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000537520
ISSN: 1515-5994
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. Colombia
Año:
Periodo: Jun
Volumen: 21
Número: 46
Paginación: 134-134
País: Argentina
Idioma: Español
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en español The Colombian countryside has long been dominated by grass and inequality. Economic theory (i.e., the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity) holds that the monopolization of land by ranchers is irrational since farming is more productive than ranching and small farms often produce more per area than large ones. Traditional explanations for the predominance of grass and the country’s agrarian structure focus on extra-economic coercion and the status associated with owning land and cattle. By contrast, this study explores the relative profitability of ranching and the limitations of peasant agriculture, which generated contrasting capacities to accumulate. It thus suggests that land markets, and the productive advantages of cattle, offer an alternative explanation
Disciplinas: Sociología,
Economía
Palabras clave: Sociología rural,
Economía agrícola,
Economía regional,
Historia regional,
Campesinos,
Ganadería,
Agricultura,
Productividad,
Historia agraria,
Productividad agrícola,
Estudios de animales,
Colombia
Keyword: Rural Sociology,
Agricultural economics,
Regional economics,
Regional history,
Peasants,
Livestock,
Agrarian history,
Agricultural,
Productivity,
Animal studies,
Colombia
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