Whether the negative relationship between farm size and
productivity that is confirmed in a large global literature
holds in Africa is of considerable policy relevance. This
paper revisits this issue and examines potential causes
of the inverse productivity relationship in Rwanda,
where policy makers consider land fragmentation and
small farm sizes to be key bottlenecks for the growth of
the agricultural sector. Nationwide plot-level data from
Rwanda point toward a constant returns to scale crop
production function and a strong negative relationship