Institutional framework affects the dynamics of land leasing/sharecropping.
The nature of leasing/sharecropping contracts, written to protect small producers, ends up hindering access of small producer to land through leasing/sharecropping contracts.
Agricultural Census data show the decay of land leasing/sharecropping contracts with small producers and the growing importance of land contracts with medium size producers.
Instability of land ownership reduce incentives for land leasing/sharecropping.