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Smallholders and Markets

2021
Smallholder production in Africa tends to be both low yielding relative to the agronomic potential, and crops are of low or variable quality. These outcomes are largely a result of market conditions that smallholders face. Smallholders lack full property rights over land, and capital markets targeting smallholders are thin, so they may not be able to ...
Alan de Brauw, Erwin Bulte
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Globalization and the smallholders [PDF]

open access: possible, 2002
A major question that has surfaced in the changing context of world agriculture is whether the smallholders would ride the wave of globalization or be swept away. This paper addresses the debate with a four-fold objective: (1) it maps different factors that are likely to impinge on developing country smallholders as a result of globalization in general
Narayanan, Sudha, Gulati, Ashok
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The Smallholdings and Survival

1991
Rubber was the first commercial crop to receive really widespread participation from small farmers in Malaya. Earlier products, such as coffee in the 1890s, had attracted some Malays on the west coast of the Peninsula, but the short life of the boom left them wary of dependence on the market.
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The smallholder project

2011
This dissertation examines the ideological force of the smallholder trope in various discourses, from classical political economy to early Canadian poetry and agribusiness advertising. The project investigates the increasing elision of smallholders from the socio-economic landscape in Canada by tracing the discursive means of their erasure.
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Smallholders, The Amazon's New Conservationists

Conservation Biology, 2006
Parks, biological reserves, and other protected areas located in the middle of expanding agricultural frontiers are the most important elements in strategies to conserve nature (Brandon et al. 1998; Terborgh & van Schaik 2002). The borders of these frontier protected areas are the battle line between economic activities that are replacing the forest ...
Marina T, Campos, Daniel C, Nepstad
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