The greatest challenges that family farmers face are developing strategies to improve market access and adding value to their agricultural production. There is a clear need for small scale farmers to find an alternative to the formal market that is mainly dominated by...
Recent developments have radically changed conditions that small-scale farmers have relied on for generations for food production and livestock rearing globally. Among these include the reduction of land available for farming due to population pressure and land...
Family farmers produce more than half of the world’s food. The United Nations declared 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming. This is a very important recognition of the multiple social, economic, environmental and cultural functions of family farming. For...
