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Small Farms; Big Hunger? Rural – Urban Contradictions in Developing Countries

Africa
Asia
Comparative Politics
Development
Latin America
Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Abstract

This Paper analyses how agrarian structure influences food and nutrition security in rural versus urban areas of Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries. It is highly relevant to the discourse in development studies about urban-bias, smallholder focused rural development, and rapid rural-urban migration. I use the Comparative Configurative Method in a fuzzy-set analysis of how the prevalence of smallholder farming influences food security in different socio-economic contexts such as land concentration, type of food system, the relative size of the agricultural population, GDP per capita, and agricultural productivity. The study comprises a sample of twenty-eight countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South East Asia, as well as Latin America.