Arancha Gonzalez

Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use in Asia and Latin America in the 1960s.

Spanish Economist

Companies that operate across borders have the expertise SMEs need. Who better to help smallholder farmers navigate complex sustainability standards than the companies who demand - or set - them?

Bill Gates

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

American Businessman

Jacqueline Novogratz

Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

American Businesswoman

Paul Polman

We need more food, more forests, better livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and lower emissions. If we want any of them, we must have all of them.

Dutch Businessman

Specifies farmers primarily working independently, with minimal external support or resources.

Self-reliant

Generally associated with countryside life rather than urban farming practices.

Rural Setting

Often implies a focus on sustainable, community-based agricultural methods.

Sustainability Focus

 its peatlands, its grasslands, its wetlands that need to be preserved. And we should definitely continue to invest in the Indigenous communities, the smallholder farmers and the local innovators who are protecting and expanding natural carbon sinks. But that should not blind us to the fact

Africa's Great Carbon...

 these that we encourage sustainable practices in the process and if we do that then we can build up those countries and not tear them down this is an opportunity for groups like the rainforest alliance who works very closely with smallholder farmers all over the world to put those

Food Security in an...

 shore up resilience and avert emissions at the same time. Women are the primary farmers of the world. They produce 60 to 80 percent of food in lower-income countries, often operating on fewer than five acres. That's what the term "smallholder" means.

How empowering women and...

 All these things are so difficult to happen, so farmers couldn't believe it, unless they actually saw it in action. So to make this happen, we had to have the courage to reimagine agriculture -- reimagine agriculture for smallholder farmers.

The "Greenhouse-in-a-Box"...

 We totally underestimate the importance of our smallholder farmers. We're beginning to recognize how important they are and how they influence our medical health, our biosafety and more recently, our cognitive and our physical health.

How we can help hungry...

 So smallholder farmers earn the bulk of their cash at harvest time, but then, fast-forward nine months later, at planting time, they're cash-poor again. The prevailing assumption is that farmers need grants, subsidies or credit

A Transparent, Easy Way...

 Regenerative agriculture, on the other hand, restores soil health and productivity, increases yield, improves water retention, benefits smallholder farmers and large farming operations alike and brings carbon back to the land.

100 solutions to reverse...

 of learning to use markets without being seduced by them. Take chocolate. It's a hundred-billion-dollar industry dependent on the labor of about five million smallholder farming families

What it takes to make...

 By the way, palm oil is included in thousands of food products we eat every day. The global demand for palm oil is just increasing. In Sumatra, I met smallholder farmers

An economic case for...

 then I'm really glad it's her. There's just one many smallholder farmers lack access to basic tools and knowledge.

Smallholder