During the civil war, most small scale farmers have reverted to subsistence farming.

One major reason why the majority of the hungry are among those who depend on small scale farming is that they are insufficiently organized.

At the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), we believe that farming, regardless of size or scale, must be seen as a business, and smallholder farmers as small scale business owners rather than poor people who need handouts.

Conventional credit institutions are not interested in farming and other types of women's income generating activities such as small scale livestock raising and the processing of agricultural products and harvests.

Small scale business activities

The time has come to reestablish public financing systems that enable small farmers in the poorest countries, notably those farming on two hectares or less, to gain access to needed inputs of high yield seeds, fertilizer, and small scale irrigation.

(c) Small Scale Enterprise (SSE)

The arrival of large scale investment in agriculture will alter the relationship between these worlds of farming.

Meanwhile farming has evolved (in developed countries) in the direction of commercialization, economics of scale, and monocropping.

Very large banks in small territories with small scale governments are vulnerable.

a) The creation of small scale business groups, focusing on small shops

The Impact on Small Scale Artisanal Fishing

Moreover, the existing banks have failed to serve these parties small business and farming constituencies.

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

Small scale producers may also sell in markets.

The former deals with the behaviour of soil from a small scale to a landslide scale.

Still, even small scale military operations would generate risk.

What actions can be undertaken to improve understanding of the contribution of small scale fisheries to food security and poverty reduction? How can vulnerability in small scale fishing communities be reduced and the added value of small scale fishing activities be increased?

Extensive farming or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.

3. individually and through enterprises (at a very small scale).

Simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities

Simplified project design document for small scale CDM project activities

In farming communities, each town had one or more small grain elevators that would serve the local growers.

A single designated operational entity may perform validation as well as verification and certification for a small scale CDM project activity or bundled small scale CDM project activities.

In other affected developing countries, the main challenges of the predominant farming and stockbreeding systems are the need to upgrade and modernize the small scale production structures, security of land tenure, integrated management of natural resources and priority for food security activities.

Project participants shall include, as part of the project design document for a small scale CDM project activity or bundle of small scale CDM project activities, a monitoring plan.

First generation Vietnamese work mostly as small scale businessmen in markets.

Draft simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities

Small scale attacks did occur, although none resulted in serious consequences.

The arrival of large scale investment in agriculture will alter the relationship between these worlds of farming. It will exacerbate highly unequal competition.

In the other parts of the country a small population of Sami hunters, fishermen and small scale farmers lived.

The mechanism exists and has already been used on a small scale.

Simplified modalities and procedures for small scale clean development mechanism project activities

152. CSOs conducted various empowerment activities targeting women in small scale businesses.

Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

Recovery will also require re establishing at least a small scale manufacturing sector.

Promotion of small and medium scale enterprises is key to fostering business activities.

This list shall not preclude other types of small scale CDM project activities.

Care farming is the therapeutic use of farming practices.

For small scale CDM project activities meeting the criteria specified in decision 17 CP.7 and relevant decisions by the COP MOP, project participants may use simplified modalities and procedures for small scale projects.

Small island developing States have open, small scale economies with limited resources, and are highly dependent on external markets and resources.

They turned off the tap to agriculture, leaving small farmers to rely on basic farming practices and on government and donor handouts.

I say she because the majority of small scale farmers in Africa are women.

Several small scale CDM project activities may be bundled for the purpose of validation.

Indicative simplified baseline and monitoring methodologies for selected small scale CDM project activity categories