The role of smallholder farms in a changing world
Despite progress, multiple burdens of malnutrition persist worldwide: 795 million people are hungry more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies and over 2 billion are overweight or obese. At the same time, various challenges continue to threaten global food security and nutriti...
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| description | Despite progress, multiple burdens of malnutrition persist worldwide: 795 million people are hungry more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies and over 2 billion are overweight or obese. At the same time, various challenges continue to threaten global food security and nutrition. Smallholder farmers are a key to ending hunger and undernutrition worldwide, but they are increasingly facing barriers to profitability. Yet smallholders should not all receive the same kind of support; they are not a homogenous group. While some smallholders should be supported to move up to commercially oriented and profitable farming systems, some should be supported to move out to seek non-farm employment opportunities. Strategies to promote smallholder agriculture as a business can help to overcome these obstacles and move smallholders with profit potential towards greater prosperity, while also contributing to the achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). |
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| spelling | CGSpace1434152024-10-25T07:54:45Z The role of smallholder farms in a changing world Fan, Shenggen Rue, Christopher sustainable development goals hunger smallholders malnutrition nutrition trace elements food security off-farm employment overweight Despite progress, multiple burdens of malnutrition persist worldwide: 795 million people are hungry more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies and over 2 billion are overweight or obese. At the same time, various challenges continue to threaten global food security and nutrition. Smallholder farmers are a key to ending hunger and undernutrition worldwide, but they are increasingly facing barriers to profitability. Yet smallholders should not all receive the same kind of support; they are not a homogenous group. While some smallholders should be supported to move up to commercially oriented and profitable farming systems, some should be supported to move out to seek non-farm employment opportunities. Strategies to promote smallholder agriculture as a business can help to overcome these obstacles and move smallholders with profit potential towards greater prosperity, while also contributing to the achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 2020-06-01 2024-05-22T12:13:59Z 2024-05-22T12:13:59Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143415 en Open Access Springer Fan, Shenggen; and Rue, Christopher. 2020. The role of smallholder farms in a changing world. In The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security, eds. Sergio Gomez y Paloma, Laura Riesgo, and Kamel Louhichi. Chapter 1, Pp. 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42148-9_2 |
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| title | The role of smallholder farms in a changing world |
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