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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.
Contents
Foreword ; 1. Introduction ; PART I: THE STATE OF SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD ; 2. On Being a Smallholder ; 3. Right Place, Right Time: The State of Smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa ; 4. Smallholder Farming in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities ; 5. The State of Smallholders in Agriculture in Latin America ; PART II: THE BUSINESS AGENDA FOR SMALLHOLDERS ; 6. Targeting Investments to Link Farmers to Markets: A Framework for Capturing the Heterogeneity of Smallholder Farmers ; 7. Promoting Small Farmer Market Access in Asia: Issues, Experiences, and Mechanisms ; 8. Financing Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries ; 9. Improving Farmers' Access to Agricultural Inputs and Finance: Approaches and Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa ; 10. Corporate Agribusiness Development and Small Farms ; 11. A Twenty-First Century Balancing Act: Smallholder Farm Technology and Cost-Effective Research ; 12. Farmers as Entrepreneurs: Sources of Agricultural Innovation in Africa ; PART III: ENHANCED LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALLHOLDERS ; 13. The Changing Rural World and Livelihood Options for Resource-Poor Rural People ; 14. Securing Land Rights for Smallholder Farmers ; 15. Empowering Women to Become Farmer Entrepreneurs: Case Study of an NGO Supported Programme in Bangladesh ; 16. Securing a Future for Smallholder Farmers in an Era of Climate Change ; 17. Rural Non-Farm Economy: Current Understandings, Policy Options, and Future Possibilities ; 18. Conclusion: The Policy Agenda
