Land transfer and technical change in a dualistic agriculture : a case study from northern Tunisia

It presents the explicit choices of rental or owner-operation of resources. This is followed in section II by consideration of the small and large farmer maximization problems under the restraints imposed by a dualistic agriculture. In the remaining sections the model is used as a means of formulating hypotheses about the land rental market, and evidence from a case study of Tunisian cereal farming is used to exemplify and validate the hypotheses.