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MeetingEquitable adaptation policies and smallholder farmer engagement in trade 2017
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Book (stand-alone)Unlocking the potential of agriculture innovation for family farmers - Thematic catalogue for smallholder farmers to promote innovation 2018
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No results found.TECA is an FAO online platform for the exchange and sharing of agricultural technologies and practices for smallholder farmers and producers. The platform facilitates the transformation process in rural areas by making relevant and innovative technologies available to farmers in the field. In doing so, TECA further enhances the access to knowledge of smallholder producers in rural areas increasing their capacity to innovate and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This catalogue promotes a set of successful innovations for farmers on the occasion of the FAO International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers: Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, which will be celebrated in FAO Headquarters on 2123 November 2018. The technologies presented are concrete actions that have solved specific development challenges and promote sustainable and inclusive rural transformations. The technologies and practices are designed following the FAOTECA platform standards and have been tested and refined in the field. Each practice supports smallholder farmers and those providing advisory services to agricultural producers, to identify specific needs, select the correct practices and to implement technologies adequately. Developed with the help of FAO in cooperation with the FAO Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture and other key partners, the GIZ, ICRAF, IFOAM and Swisscontact, this catalogue aims at illustrating how sharing knowledge may unlock innovation throughout the farming process. -
Book (stand-alone)Smallholder farmers in India: food security and agricultural policy 2002
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No results found.The average size of nearly 80 percent of India’s over 106 million farm holdings in the early 1990s was less than 2 hectares. Covering only 33 percent of the total cultivated land in the country, these farms produced 41 percent of the nation’s food grain harvest – up from their contribution of 28 percent in 1971. This document analyses national farm census data between 1971 and the latest available estimate for 1991 to highlight the growing role of the country’s small farms in national food produ ction. Ironically, smallholder farmers form the bulk of India’s over 200 million hungry and poor people today. This points to the urgent need for reversing the decline in public investment in agriculture, while strengthening agrarian reform, infrastructure and institutions, creating off-farm employment and using size and scale-neutral technologies to boost crop and livestock production on small farms. The authors recommend safety nets as well as government initiatives in the international arena to ensure a fair deal to the country’s small farmers.
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