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What is a Smallholder Farmer? | Heifer International

A smallholder farmer is a producer who rears livestock, raises fish or cultivates crops on a limited scale: In the developing world, a ...

Smallholders and Family Farmers | FAO

Smallholders are characterized by family-focused motives such as favouring the stability of the farm household system, using mainly family labour for production ...

Smallholding - Wikipedia

A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model. ... Definitions vary widely for what constitutes a smallholder or ...

Smallholders produce one-third of the world's food, less than half of ...

Smallholder farms are those that are less than two hectares. That's the top two bars, which are shaded in blue. Smallholder farmers produce 29% ...

What Are the Challenges of Smallholder Farmers Around the World?

They often face challenges due to limited resources, improper infrastructure, lack of funding, gender biases, or other socioeconomic factors.

Smallholder Farmers | WIEGO

Smallholders generally rely on labour-intensive production methods and family labour, although they often have to hire labour, especially at key moments in the ...

SMALLHOLDERS AND FAMILY FARMERS

A large study examining smallholder agriculture covering 286 projects, over 37 million hectares in 57 developing countries, found that when sustainable ...

Smallholder farmers key to achieving global food security

Smallholder farmers produce about one-third of the world's food but need climate, financial and technological support to ensure global food ...

Data-Driven Agriculture: The Future of Smallholder Farmer ... - usaid

More than 500 million smallholder farms worldwide play a significant role in food production and the genetic diversity of the food supply.

Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers - CSIS

But to do so, smallholder farmers need to have access to finance that will enable them to buy or lease new equipment, improved seeds, and other ...

Smallholder Farming - at the Centre of our Food Systems

These farmers grow staple crops such as maize, wheat, rice, cassava, and sorghum. They also play a vital role in environmental sustainability and conservation ...

Smallholder Farmers

Although smallholder farming plays a significant role in global agricultural production and sustaining rural livelihoods, smallholder producers often live in ...

Smallholder Farming & How Climate Change Impacts Small Farms

At a time when growing conditions are changing from year to year, speed is of the essence. If smallholder farmers are forced to rely on methods ...

Supporting Small-scale & Smallholder Farmers | TechnoServe

Nearly two-thirds of the world's poor rely on agriculture. TechnoServe helps smallholder farmers improve crops, access markets, and increase incomes.

Smallholder Farmers | Bayer Global

We will support a total of 100 million smallholder farmers in LMICs by 2030 by improving their access to agricultural products, services, and partnerships.

Smallholder farmers' challenges and opportunities: Implications for ...

Smallholders confront immense challenges, risks, and pressures affecting their agricultural production and livelihoods.

A Year in the Lives of Smallholder Farmers - World Bank

There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farming households globally, who comprise a large proportion of the world's poor living on ...

Why smallholder farmers are key to scaling regenerative agriculture

More than 15 million small farmers are already benefiting and even thriving from adopting the climate-beneficial practices of regenerative ...

Change starts here - IFAD

... smallholder farmers poor and food insecurity on the rise in some places. In Africa, there are an estimated 33 million smallholder farms, and the farmers ...

the significance of smallholder farms in the global food system

Urbanization and farm size in Asia and Africa: implications for food security and agricultural research