The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Mattia C Bertazzini, University of Oxford
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Project Citation:
Bertazzini, Mattia C. The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-03-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/E165002V1
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What effect did the settlement of European farmers
have on the indigenous agricultural sector during the colonial period? On the
one hand, European immigrants imported skills and capital but, on the other,
they took control of local resources. By looking at the short-term effect of
Italian farming in colonial Libya, I shed new light on this question. Through
regression analysis on a novel village dataset covering the entire country, I
show that - in 1939 - proximity to Italian farms was associated with
significantly lower land productivity relative to distant locations. Lower
yields can be explained by the adoption of land-extensive cultivation, that was
implemented by indigenous farmers to counteract a labour drain operated by
Italian farms through factor markets. The combined mitigating effect of
monetary wages and land-extensive techniques only partially compensated for the
fall in income linked to reduced land productivity.
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