Smallholder agriculture and the environment in a changing global context
This new policy brief focuses on small-scale agriculture,an important contributor to poverty reduction, rural development, and food security. It recommends support for small holder agriculture, for which the support has declined sharply in the past three decades.
Across the developing world, small-scale agriculture is an important contributor to poverty reduction, rural development, and food security. Small farmers are also a key determinant of environmental outcomes, including land and water management, biodiversity conservation, and climate change, in some of the world