from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …

agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved … shifting roles of industry vs. agriculture and that of government, and the public sector vs. markets and the private sector …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …

The impact of large commercial farms on neighbouring smallholders in low-income sub-Saharan Africa remains …, linking them to a nationally representative survey of smallholders. We investigate: (i) the degree of selection of commercial … farms into more/less favourable locations; and (ii) the effects of these farms on the incomes of neighbouring smallholders …