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Irrigation-as-a-service for smallholder farmers

2022
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Lal, Ishani, Lal, Ishani
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The coffee sector and smallholder farmers

2022
This chapter reviews the role of smallholders in coffee cultivation and the challenges they face. It reviews definitions, size and distribution of this group. The chapter then looks at structure and price volatility in the coffee market and its impact on smallholders, including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. A particular focus is women and young
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Smallholder Farmer Prosperous Farmer

Agricultural Engineering Today
Agriculture is the backbone of our country. Close to 100 million smallholder farmers with less than 2 hectares of landholdings represent 83% of all Indian farmers. These smallholder farmers engage in growing a variety of crops and are spread out across the Indian landscape. Their produce accounts for approximately 70% of the food supply in the country.
null Saroj Mahapatra, null Rajeev Ranjan
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Agricultural biotechnology and smallholder farmers in developing countries

Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2012
Agricultural biotechnology holds much potential to contribute towards crop productivity gains and crop improvement for smallholder farmers in developing countries. Over 14 million smallholder farmers are already benefiting from biotech crops such as cotton and maize in China, India and other Asian, African and Central/South American countries ...
Vivienne M, Anthony, Marco, Ferroni
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Multiplying Impact for Smallholder Farmers

Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy: The Journal of the Accord Network
Smallholder farmers around the world often find themselves at the nexus of poverty and environmental degradation. Promotion of savings groups has become a well-recognized strategy for addressing poverty. Evidence shows that while savings group promotion can result in positive impact, these results are often small.
Scott Sabin   +9 more
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Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers

Nature, 2018
Sustainably feeding a growing population is a grand challenge, and one that is particularly difficult in regions that are dominated by smallholder farming. Despite local successes, mobilizing vast smallholder communities with science- and evidence-based management practices to simultaneously address production and pollution problems has been infeasible.
Zhenling, Cui   +45 more
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Adaptation to climate change by smallholder farmers in Tanzania

2018
In Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is set to hit the agricultural sector the most and cause untold suffering particularly for smallholder farmers. To cushion themselves against the potential welfare losses, smallholder farmers need to recognize the changes already taking place in their climate and undertake appropriate investments towards adaptation.
Coretha Komba, Edwin Muchapondwa
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