Pastures, crops, and inequality: Questioning the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in Colombia
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| contents | Pastures, crops, and inequality: Questioning the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in Colombia Shawn Van Ausdal Estudios Agrarios Colombia Animal studies Cattle ranching Agrarian history Peasant agriculture 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. 2020 artículo científico 1515-5994 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84562590009 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/84562590009.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/movil https://doi.org/10.24215/15155994e134 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=845 Mundo Agrario application/pdf Universidad Nacional de La Plata Mundo Agrario (Argentina) Num.46 Vol.21 |
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| spellingShingle | Pastures, crops, and inequality: Questioning the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in Colombia Shawn Van Ausdal Estudios Agrarios Colombia Animal studies Cattle ranching Agrarian history Peasant agriculture Pastures, crops, and inequality: Questioning the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in Colombia Shawn Van Ausdal Estudios Agrarios Colombia Animal studies Cattle ranching Agrarian history Peasant agriculture 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. 2020 artículo científico 1515-5994 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84562590009 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/84562590009.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/movil https://doi.org/10.24215/15155994e134 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=845 Mundo Agrario application/pdf Universidad Nacional de La Plata Mundo Agrario (Argentina) Num.46 Vol.21 |
| title | Pastures, crops, and inequality: Questioning the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in Colombia |
| topic | Estudios Agrarios Colombia Animal studies Cattle ranching Agrarian history Peasant agriculture |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=84562590009 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/84562590009.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/845/84562590009/movil https://doi.org/10.24215/15155994e134 |