Facilitating Smallholder Farmers’ Market Access
In the OIC Member Countries
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TABLE 1: FARM SIZE DISTRIBUTION IN SELECTED COUNTRIES AND VARIOUS YEARS
Country (year) < 1 ha 1–2 ha 2–5 ha 5–10 ha 10–20 ha > 20 ha
Albania (1998) 466,809 279,793 140,377 46,639 – –
Algeria (2001) 1,023,799 223,115 128,864 239,844 181,267 107,729
Djibouti (1995) 1,135 944 191 – – –
Egypt (1999–2000) 3,955,941 365,362 170,625 35,996 10,953 3,007
Guinea (1995) 442,168 150,950 137,247 123,732 30,239 –
Guinea Bissau
(1998) 84,221 59,120 14,809 8,531 1,590 –
Indonesia (2003) 18,606,642 3,460,406 2,801,627 – – –
Iran (2003) 4,332,423 2,056,727 522,956 797,006 491,156 169,399
Jordan (1997) 47,509 28,728 6,532 3,291 1,778 614
Lebanon (1998) 194,829 141,594 27,434 19,536 3,127 1,155
Libya (1987) 175,528 25,213 17,654 43,904 40,406 17,066
Mali (2004–05) 805,194 255,596 108,998 189,636 142,932 28,967
Morocco (1996) 1,496,349 380,039 272412 411,967 247,766 58,996
Mozambique (1999) 3,037,782 1,633,986 922,603 426,665 49,941 648
Pakistan (2000) 6,620,054 2,389,423 1,425,370 1,857,166 580,200 107,104
Senegal (1998) 437,037 91,532 72,226 142,213 90,669 6,071
Turkey (2001) 522,990 539,816 950,840 560,049 327,363 175,592
Uganda (1991) 839,369 411,810 296,560 97,013 59,969 –
Yemen (2002) 1,180,105 865,733 124,052 107,170 83,150 –
Source: Lowder, Skoet, and Singh 2014.
A Framework for Examining Smallholder Farmers’ Participation in
Agri-Food Markets in OIC Member Countries
To reflect the diverse endowments, agricultural systems, and stages of development
among the 57 OIC member countries, the analysis in this study classifies countries into one
of five stages in the structural transformation process, based on a framework developed to
examine the evolving role of agribusiness in the agricultural sector. 13 That framework
expands on the classification of countries used in the World Development Report 2008:
Agriculture for Development, which divided countries into three groups—agriculture-
based, transforming, or urbanized—based on the share of aggregate growth originating in
agriculture and the share of aggregate poverty (US$ 2.15 a day) in the rural sector.14
In the five-stage classification used here, countries in the first stage are considered
agriculture-based economies. In those economies, agriculture accounts for over 30 percent
of GDP and over 50 percent of employment. Based on the data available from 51 of the 57
OIC member countries, roughly 25 percent of member countries fall into this group
. With the exception of Afghanistan, all of the agriculture-based countries are in
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
13 “Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture” (World Bank, forthcoming).
14 World Bank (2007).