Premature deagriculturalisation? Land inequality and rural dependency in Limpopo province, South Africa*
跨国回归显示，历史上土地集中在大型资本密集型农场的发展中国家，农业劳动力占比异常低，这种去农业化可能过早，导致劳动力被挤出并产生不良后果。南非调查发现，大量农村家庭依赖汇款或养老金，而拥有较多土地的家庭则更多依赖本地收入。
Abstract Cross-national regressions reveal abnormally low agricultural workforce shares, given GNP, in developing countries that had historically concentrated land into large capital-intensive farms. We argue that such deagriculturalisation was premature, since its concomitant labour shedding has undesirable outcomes. In a new South African survey, a large proportion of rural households (and working-age persons) was ‘dependent’, relying for income almost wholly on either migrant remittances or pensions. A separate group (with less poverty and unemployment) relied mainly on local, including own-farm, income. The group was heavily over-represented in one of the three regions, where many more households had significant land.