Opportunities And Challenges Of Smallholders And Smallholding

Author : Donát Horváth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Farms, Small
ISBN : 1536191353

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Opportunities and Challenges of Smallholders and Smallholding by Donát Horváth Pdf

"Smallholder farms or smallholdings comprise livestock and livestock, livestock and crops and crops and crops farming systems. It involves nutritional inter-relationships of integration and interdependency between livestock and crop systems and crop and crop systems. There are an estimated 500 billion smallholder farms worldwide supporting livelihoods of about 2 billion people, most of who are in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia. Smallholders make more than 60% of agricultural producers supplying local and international food markets, and employ about 70% of farming communities in Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia. However, these farming systems experience financial, technological, infrastructural, market access, environmental and policy and institutional framework challenges. Considering the importance of smallholder farming systems, attempts should be geared towards mitigating the challenges and promoting productivity and sustainability of these farming systems. This is expected to lead to improved food and nutrition security and food safety and translate to improved livelihoods of smallholder farmers and increased income from agriculture products. The authors' of this book focus on the challenges and opportunities of smallholders and smallholding systems all over the world"--

Author : Sergio Gomez y Paloma,Laura Riesgo,Kamel Louhichi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9783030421489

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The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security by Sergio Gomez y Paloma,Laura Riesgo,Kamel Louhichi Pdf

This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and social resilience could produce positive impacts on food security and nutrition at a number of levels. In addition to the role of small farmers as food suppliers, the book considers their role as consumers and their level of nutrition security. It investigates the link between agriculture and nutrition in order to better understand how agriculture affects human health and dietary patterns. Given the importance of smallholdings, strategies to increase their productivity are essential to improving food and nutrition security, as well as food diversity.

Author : Toyin Kolawole, Ph.d.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536168920

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Smallholder Farmers and Farming Practices: Challenges and Prospects by Toyin Kolawole, Ph.d. Pdf

This book emanated from the research outputs of different authors whose diverse academic traditions and wide geographic spread play a major role in enriching its contents. The volume is mainly a compilation on smallholder farmers and their practices. The book also highlights the challenges, which that small farmers frequently encounter, and the opportunities or prospects, which abound in their farming operations. Compartmentalised into three major sections, this 11-chapter volume provides an account of thought-provoking scenarios and narratives, which are rich and well- suited for policy development and praxis. The book, therefore, compels policymakers to see opportunities in every challenge associated with smallholder agriculture rather than see challenges in every opportunity therein. While some of the chapters present the results of field experimentations that highlight the impacts of certain geographic features and fertilizer use on root tuber cultivars' production, some explore the effect of climate change on smallholder farming practices and how small farmers counteract the vagaries of weather conditions, which might impede their livelihoods. Nonetheless, most of the chapters largely rely on sociological methodologies to identify pertinent issues affecting the smallholder agriculture. While some of the issues underscore the advocacy for organic farming and its associated benefits or opportunities, others emphasize the uniqueness of certain agro-ecological farming systems and the opportunities, which they might offer resource-poor, smallholder farmers. A number of the chapters specifically provide some historical perspectives on the political economy of smallholder agriculture and identify the motivating and demotivating factors influencing young farmers' affection for farming while some accentuate the pertinent role of research in determining small farmers' response to the adoption of improved biotechnology in achieving food security. In the context of this book, there is a convergence in the findings and viewpoints of the authors in many places regarding topical issues on environmental sustainability, mitigation of climate change, ethics of the agri-food systems and agricultural policy.

Author : Peter B. R. Hazell,Atiqur Rahman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191003561

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New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture by Peter B. R. Hazell,Atiqur Rahman Pdf

The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies. At the same time, many other smallholders are successfully intensifying and succeeding as farm businesses, often in combination with diversification into off-farm sources of income. This book examines the growing divergence between subsistence and business oriented small farms, and discusses how this divergence has been impacted by population growth, trends in farm size distribution, urbanization, off-farm income diversification, and the globalization of agricultural value chains. It finds that policy makers need to differentiate more sharply between different types of small farms than they did in the past, both in terms of their potential contributions towards achieving national economic growth, poverty alleviation, and food security goals, and the types of assistance they need. The book distinguishes between smallholders that are business oriented, subsistence oriented, and at various stages of transition to the non-farm economy, and discusses strategies appropriate for assisting each type. The book draws on a wealth of recent experience at IFAD and elsewhere to help identify best practice approaches.

Author : Fan, Shenggen,Brzeska, Joanna,Keyzer, Michiel,Halsema, Alex
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896295582

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From subsistence to profit by Fan, Shenggen,Brzeska, Joanna,Keyzer, Michiel,Halsema, Alex Pdf

This food policy report presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and development pathways for smallholder farmers in developing countries, and offers policy recommendations to help potentially profitable smallholders meet emerging risks and challenges. Main Findings Smallholder farmers in developing countries play a key role in meeting the future food demands of a growing and increasingly rich and urbanized population. However, smallholders are not a homogeneous group that should be supported at all costs. Whereas some smallholder farmers have the potential to undertake profitable commercial activities in the agricultural sector, others should be supported in exiting agriculture and seeking nonfarm employment opportunities. For smallholder farmers with profit potential, their ability to be successful is hampered by such challenges as climate change, price shocks, limited financing options, and inadequate access to healthy and nutritious food. By overcoming these challenges, smallholders can move from subsistence to commercially oriented agricultural systems, increase their profits, and operate at an efficient scale—thereby helping to do their part in feeding the world’s hungry.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781853399411

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Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation discusses the evolution of policies for smallholder development, including the role of value chains, and the linkages that exist with the Sustainable Development Goals. New, innovative financial mechanisms and linked initiatives are outlined, and their potential to improve the availability of financial services and reduce market transaction costs. Risk management for agricultural smallholders is covered, together with the increasing role of insura nce as a mechanism for risk management among smallholders. Empirical data are used to illustrate the more conceptual work. The last part of the book provides case studies of selected commodity value chain investments involving smallholders in Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe) and South America (Peru), implemented by FAO. The lessons concern project design and targeting, product and market analysis, regulatory issues, sustainability and improved natural resources management.

Author : Herman D. van Schalkwyk,Jan A. Groenewald,Gavin C.G. Fraser,Ajuruchukwu Obi,Aad van Tilburg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789086861682

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Unlocking markets to smallholders by Herman D. van Schalkwyk,Jan A. Groenewald,Gavin C.G. Fraser,Ajuruchukwu Obi,Aad van Tilburg Pdf

This book assesses the institutional, technical and market constraints as well as opportunities for smallholders, notably, emerging farmers in disadvantaged areas such as the former homelands of South Africa. Emerging farmers are previously disadvantaged black people who started or will start their business with the support of special government programs. Public support programs have been developed as part of the Black Economic Empowerment strategy of the South African government. These programs aim to improve the performance of emerging farmers. This requires, first and foremost, upgrading the emerging farmers skills by providing access to knowledge about agricultural and entrepreneurial practices. To become or to remain good farmers they also need access to suitable agricultural land and sufficient water for irrigation and for feeding their cattle. Finally, for emerging farmers to be engaged in viable farming operations, various factors need to be in place such as marketing and service institutions to give credit for agricultural inputs and investments; input markets for farm machinery, farm implements, fertilizers and quality seeds; and accessible output markets for their end products. This book develops a policy framework and potential institutional responses to unlock the relevant markets for smallholders.

Author : John A. Dixon,David P. Gibbon,Aidan Gulliver,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251046271

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Farming Systems and Poverty by John A. Dixon,David P. Gibbon,Aidan Gulliver,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.

Author : Pratap S. Birthal, Awadhesh K. Jha, Marites M. Tiongco, and Clare Narrod
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Improving Farm-to-Market Linkages through Contract Farming: A case study of Smallholder Dairying in India by Pratap S. Birthal, Awadhesh K. Jha, Marites M. Tiongco, and Clare Narrod Pdf

Author : International Finance Corporation
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464812781

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Working with Smallholders by International Finance Corporation Pdf

This handbook addresses the challenges that agribusiness companies face when working with smallholder suppliers in their value chain.

Author : Atakilte Beyene,Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9171067574

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Small Farms Under Stress Play a Huge Role for Africa by Atakilte Beyene,Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Pdf

Author : Amitava Rakshit,Somsubhra Chakraborty,Manoj Parihar,Vijay Singh Meena,Pradeep Kumar Mishra,Harikesh Bahadur Singh
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000574081

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Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture by Amitava Rakshit,Somsubhra Chakraborty,Manoj Parihar,Vijay Singh Meena,Pradeep Kumar Mishra,Harikesh Bahadur Singh Pdf

Innovation in Small-Farm Agriculture: Improving Livelihoods and Sustainability is an invaluable resource focussing on the current state of knowledge and scientific advances about the complex and intertwined issues of innovation and how they relate to livelihood of small-scale farmers. This book exposes readers with a holistic overview on how agriculture is most associated with the development and transfer of technologies to farmers and their participation in research and development initiatives to improve the relevancy and usefulness of its outputs and innovation which is not well documented. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics, including: Recent scientific advances on agricultural innovations for small farmers. Emphasizes on opportunities and constraints of techno-institutional paradigms. Highlight low-cost and eco-friendly interventions. Case studies on various innovations in agriculture spanning the different agricultural gamut.

Author : CTA
Publisher : CTA
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Farm data: Serving smallholder farmers in a digital age by CTA Pdf

Spore magazine 190: Farm data: Serving smallholder farmers in a digital age Increasing amounts of agricultural data are being produced at faster speeds, using a greater variety of technologies and innovations than ever before. But what is the value of information sharing for smallholders, and what are the risks? SPORE is the quarterly magazine of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), offering a global perspective on agribusiness and sustainable agriculture. CTA operates under the Cotonou Agreement between the countries of the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group and the European Union and is financed by the EU.

Author : Peter B. R. Hazell,Atiqur Rahman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199689347

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New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture by Peter B. R. Hazell,Atiqur Rahman Pdf

Arising from an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) project this book explores the most promising innovations in technology, institutional, and policy approaches for creating additional and better farm business opportunities for smallholder farmers.

Author : Emerita Professor Carolyn Sachs,Dr Paige Castellanos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2025-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1801468052

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Women and Smallholder Farming by Emerita Professor Carolyn Sachs,Dr Paige Castellanos Pdf

This book will highlight the day-to-day challenges faced by women smallholders in regions such as Africa, Asia and South America, whilst also considering how key stakeholders across the agri-food supply chain can support, empower and sufficiently compensate women smallholder farmers for their contribution to agriculture.