"1988 land reform in the Philippines that imposed a ceiling on land holdings, … reduces average farm size by 34% and agricultural productivity by 17%." https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/mac.20150222 …
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Like enclosure in reverse.
There's a book called How Asia Works which says that this is a really important step towards development. The idea is that by giving everybody a small farm, they take ownership and then food output levels go up freeing people for factory work. Didn't work in PH AFAICT.
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Who in the fuck would want to be a working farmer, though? It's not bad as a hobby, but that's a shit load of hard work. Enclosure was more productive. Tractor farming is more productive. This why we have the lowest percentage of pop in agriculture ever and massive surpluses.
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