Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?

• Published in: World development Vol. 142; p. 105455
• Main Authors: Lowder, Sarah K., Sánchez, Marco V., Bertini, Raffaele
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2021; Elsevier Science Publishers; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Bias; Census; Censuses; Estimates; Family farm; Family farms; Farm size; Farmland distribution; Farms; Food; Food production; Small farm; Small farms; Smallholder; Food production; Family farm; Small farm; Farm size; Smallholder; Farmland distribution

•There are more than 608 million farms in the world.•Family farms produce roughly 80% of the world’s food in value terms.•Farms smaller than 2 hectares produce roughly 35% of the world’s food.•The largest one percent of farms operating 70 percent of the its farmland.•Agricultural censuses must cover...