Published on : 22 Oct 2025, 12:46 pm

Farm size is being consolidated across the world according to a new study. It is something that could have impacts on rural development and food security.

The study was published in the journal Nature Communications on October 17, 2025. A research team led by Jiani Wang and Qing Zhu from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reconstructed and analysed a global dataset on farm size spanning from 1970 to 2020. They found key historical shifts and future trajectories.

They found that global average ‘socio-economic farm size’ may triple by 2100, amid rural population decline, according to a new study. ‘Socio-economic farm size (SFS)’ has been defined by the researchers as agricultural land area divided by

See Full Page