Move Up or Move Out: Transforming Smallholder Family Farms « IFPRI South Asia

Move Up or Move Out: Transforming Smallholder Family Farms « IFPRI South Asia: "Most smallholder farms are family-based—of the world’s 570 million farms, 88 percent are family farms while 84 percent are small.  Smallholder farms, with an average size of 2 hectares or less, provide not only livelihoods to 2.5 billion people but also 80 percent of the food consumed in Asia and Africa south of the Sahara. Nevertheless, with emerging challenges such as climate change, price shocks, agricultural-related risks to health, and limited access to finance and capital, smallholder farmers will suffer the most.

In the light of these challenges, strategies are needed that are tailored to different types of smallholders and a country’s level of transformation, said IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan  at last month’s M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation’s campus in Chennai, India, where he spoke on  “Enhancing the Profitability of Family Farms” at the Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation on the “Role of Family Farming in the 21st Century: Achieving the Zero Hunger Challenges by 2025."

IFPRI - Enhancing Profitability of Family Farms, Shenggen Fan from southasia-ifpri

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