Synthesizing Knowledge about Structural Change in Agriculture: The Integration of Disciplines and Aggregation Levels
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Method and Data
3. The Family Farm as Micro-Level
4. The Agricultural Sector as Meso-Level
“The exclusive focus on isolated behavior of single farms in the relevant literature does not suffice in order to explain the different patterns of regional structural change. Quite the contrary, the continuous interaction among agents and failures of coordination in different historic environments need to be taken into account.”
5. The Economy as Macro-Level
6. Discussion and Conclusions
- Agricultural economists in Eastern Europe and Russia are concerned with imperfections in local land markets [120], which also lead to the abandonment of large amounts of farmland [121]. It is likely that a better understanding of structural patterns in the region would provide additional keys to better land management.
- Similarly, agricultural structures in Africa are certainly an underresearched subject. Even apart from the failed attempts to reduce the degree iof bifurcation in South Africa’s agriculture [122], a better scientific understanding of Africa’s emerging class of middle-sized farms [123] would probably contribute toward better food security on the continent.
- Sociologists on the micro-level focus, in one way or another, on the social patterns that shape the succession process. The interplay between identity and environment will manifest in different cultural habits and norms.
- On a slightly more aggregated level, the share of farms being taken over by the next generation or the number of farms that evolve from one farm after farm succession is a crucial variable to understanding structural change.
- On a sectoral (meso) level, the social patterns detected on the micro-level add up to a culture that will be specific to agriculture in the region.
- On the same level, the amount of capital per labor is an important variable to describe the agricultural system, also in terms of labor productivity and resulting sectoral competitiveness.
- On the societal level, attitudes towards agriculture and farmers are the most crucial social variable shaping the willingness to enter or leave the sector.
- Economically, the share of agriculture in a nation’s or region’s GDP over time is the core economic variable on the macro-level with which the different push and pull factors can be summarized.
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