The poverty impact of smallholder farming is also typically greater than from mechanized large farms, which instead tend to displace labor. Rapid reductions in poverty following Green Revolutions in India and China are generally attributed to small farmer led agricultural growth. More generally, Lipton concludes that, “There are virtually no examples of mass poverty reduction since 1700 that did not start with a sharp rise in employment and self-employment due to higher productivity on small family farms.” (Lipton 2005, p.9).