Agricultural Productivity and Land Inequality
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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How do agricultural productivity
gains affect the distribution of agricultural land
Exploiting three waves of census data from the Philippines
covering 21 years and 17 million plots, this article finds
that municipalities endowed with favorable soil and weather
conditions for genetically modified (GM) corn cultivation
experience a relative increase in landholding inequality.
Agricultural land is decreasing during this period and this
decrease is driven by a decline in the size of large farms.
The introduction of GM corn slows down this process by
keeping more land under cultivation, which contributes to
the documented relative increase in inequality.
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LAND INEQUALITY, AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY, LAND REFORM, AGRICULTURE