ABSTRACT
This chapter explores various debates pertaining to Low and low middle income countries (L/LMIC) agricultures after exploring background issues. The appropriate role of agriculture and modernizing it led into the debate, going back to the 1960s, about the effectiveness of the “Green Revolution” (GR). Agriculture is the dominant activity in rural areas in L/LMICs in which the rural population as a percentage of the total is still large. The most common form of cultivation in African and Asian agricultures is the small family-run peasant farms. Depressing food prices would result in a substitution of resources away from growing food and into livestock, vegetables and fruits and this would primarily benefit rich consumers in the urban areas. Some scholars argued that the GR was not to blame for social and economic ills but rather that the socioeconomic system into which it was introduced shaped its impacts. The economic case for land reforms is premised on the farm size productivity association.
