This overview by the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development is proof that smallholder farmers can be part of the solution to global food security, helping to feed the world.
What they need, however, is that rich and poor countries alike invest in and support agricultural and rural development, creating the conditions to move poor rural people out of subsistence farming and into the marketplace.
There are some 500-million smallholder farms worldwide; more than two-billion people depend on them for their livelihoods. These small farms produce about 80% of the food consumed in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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