Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174401 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2016-09
Publisher: 
University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics, Amherst, MA
Abstract: 
Of late, incorporating smallholder land, through partnerships with agribusiness firms that cultivate export crops has received some attention among scholars, policy- makers and non-government organizations (NGOs). Some see such partnerships as a means of raising smallholder incomes, and achieving rural development. However, several case studies have shown that such partnerships can result in low incomes, and effective dispossession of smallholders. This essay examines how this dynamic occurs by comparing the experiences of smallholders in the Davao Region of the Philippines. I argue that despite the smallholders observable and enforceable property rights, the costs and risks of cultivation, coupled with an unfavorable political environment generate conditions under which smallholders cede control over their holdings in a partnership. This results in both lower incomes, and exclusion from the use of their land.
Subjects: 
Rural Development
Land Conflict
Agribusiness
Agrarian Reform June
2016
JEL: 
F63
N55
N75
O13
O19
O53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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