CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

A Big Chance for Small Farmers

A small one.

The capital held by rural women comes mostly from petty trade, small livestock and farming.

We will not do that through small farmers' markets because these people have no small farmers' markets at their disposal.

DH Do you have a small farm animal?

They live on small scale farming and their children do not go to school.

These are old hand farmers who've gone through all the agricultural ups and downs in Kenya over the last 30 years.

Wheat, cotton, rice, millet and sugarcane are the major crops.

I was going to work with small farmers.

CGIAR Consultive Group on International Agricultural Research

(a) Creating an enabling environment that encourages the participation of rural producers and small farmers

(a) Creating an enabling environment that encourages the participation of rural producers and small farmers

With regard to IFAD, the representative of FICSA enquired about the size and the composition of the focus group.

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Bankruptcy among small agricultural producers supplying foodstuffs to the local market.

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It ties in with small scale farmers in terms of no pesticides, no fertilizers.

It calls for dismantling trade barriers and ending agricultural subsidies that hurt farmers and small businesses.

That includes cottages and the like. But 30 percent.

I grew up on a small farm in Missouri.

Micro Credit and Financing of Urban Agriculture

This has brought about the crisis of big and small agricultural producers.

On the basis of the outcome of those assessments, FAO will implement small scale agriculture projects in collaboration with community organizations.

And most of Africa's farmers are, by and large, small farmers in terms of land that they operate, and very, very small farmers in terms of the capital they have at their disposal.

Thus, the agricultural institutions working in rural development, in an attempt to facilitate rural funding, has been creating alternative sources of funding such as Agricultural and Rural Development Fund (FFADR), Fisheries Development Fund (FFP), Small Industry Development Fund (FFPI), Fund for Agricultural Credit and Rural Development (CCADR), etc.

At planting phase, Rural Taobao and Ant Financial Services have jointly offered means to acquire agricultural resources and tools as well as obtain micro loans.

The farmers have little bridges to get from one roof to the next.

They drove like three hours from their farm to the hospital.

96 women's groups, with 1479 members, have been trained in livestock raising.

The Minister was released an hour later after having been searched.

And before the war, I was a sharecropper, like my father before me.

I had a little mixup with some gentlemen from the Barb ranch.

Tom and Mary own a small organic farm.

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Against enormous odds, her small farm grew, creating jobs for nearly 200 rural women.

Let's go back to small scale, to farmers' markets, small bakeries and all that. Wonderful.

In agriculture, small farmers would be placed on a collision course with US agro business and their heavily subsidized farm exports. The US exported paddy rice, for example, at a price almost 20 lower than the cost of production in 2003, making it impossible for Central Americans to compete.

And I grew up in this little farming town in northern Nevada.

This is their view to the west of the Schell Creek range.

Agricultural parcels continue to be fragmented and reduced.

A two person ANGOC team attended the meeting.

Recognizing that some effects of market liberalization may deepen the socio economic marginalization of women in the agricultural sector, including through the loss of employment among small scale farmers, who are more likely to be women than men, and emphasizing that women who are small scale farmers need special support and empowerment in order to be able to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities of agricultural market liberalization,

Agriculture, predominantly on a small scale, accounts for about 30 of sub Saharan Africa s GDP and at least 40 of export value. In a number of small countries in Africa, agriculture plays an even greater role, representing 80 or more of export earnings.

However, it needed to be supported by a microcredit system focused on rural and agricultural development.