0 the activity of renting land and giving part of the crop you produce on it as rent, especially in the past in the US : --
Sharecropping is arguably one of the most controversial subjects in agricultural economics.
The mid-nineteenth-century literature often identifies the advantages of sharecropping for landless labourers wishing to climb the farming ladder.
By focusing on transaction costs, economic historians have been able to explain a variety of institutional arrangements, including the firm, sharecropping, and manorial contracts.
While economists are fascinated by short-term efficiency, historians focus on the negative effects of sharecropping on technical progress.
The evidence, admittedly incomplete (for a decline in tenanted farms) or very flimsy (for a decline in sharecropping), tells a different story.
As the constitution permits, short-term leases, such as rental and sharecropping, are practiced all over the country in response to land scarcity in all regions.
This could explain, secondly, the choice of a contract such as sharecropping which allowed landlords to supply the necessary managerial expertise.
First, sharecropping seems to have been adopted only in some countries and only in some areas of them.
