In Africa, most food is produced by women smallholder farmers.

Organizations like IFAD can help link the private sector and smallholder farmers.

Moreover, sustainable investment linkages between smallholder farmers and the private sector are needed.

Moreover, large companies should use their global supply chains to empower their workforces and women smallholder farmers.

New drought tolerant maize varieties, for example, are already benefiting more than two million smallholder farmers in Africa.

Agricultural development efforts should, therefore, focus on promoting the growth and sustainability of smallholder farmers and small rural businesses.

By enabling farmers to increase their output and incomes, smallholder inclusive private investment can bolster economic growth and food security.

Indeed, smallholder farmers are often extremely efficient producers per hectare, and can contribute to a country s economic growth and food security.

Much needed capital investment can enable smallholder farmers to provide the private sector with a sustainable supply of high quality agricultural produce.

If smallholder farmers are to be given the opportunity to become viable businesses, it is essential that they be connected to markets.

In Haiti, and in developing countries around the world, smallholder farmers can contribute to food security and economic growth just as they did in Vietnam.

In Davos, I will work to ensure that the interests of the world s smallholder farmers in Haiti and in developing countries around the world are represented.

Three quarters of the world s poorest people get their food and income from farming small plots of land, and most of these smallholder farmers are women.

One cornerstone of the project was smallholder farmers, meaning peasant farm families in Africa, Latin America, and Asia working farms of around one hectare (2.5 acres) or less.

The lessons of history are clear. Getting seed and fertilizer to smallholder farmers at highly subsidized prices (or even free in some cases) will make a lasting difference.

At the same time, smallholder farmers need easier access to markets to sell their crops for a fair price, rather than relying on expensive middlemen or inefficient government bodies.

We should consider not only how to improve the ability of smallholder farmers to grow food we also must strengthen their ability to participate in markets, while improving the way those markets function.

But that is not all With knowledge, technology, infrastructure, and enabling policies, smallholder farmers in Africa and elsewhere can drive sustainable agricultural development, contribute to global food security, and catalyze economic growth worldwide.

If smallholder farmers have the basic infrastructure they need to get their goods to market, they will not only be able to feed themselves and their communities, but will contribute to wider food security.

There is growing recognition that these smallholder farmers and their rural communities are a major part of the solution to food insecurity and poverty but only if they have what they need to do their jobs.

Not only in Africa in countries like Burkina Faso and Ethiopia but also in emerging countries like China, India, and Vietnam, experience has repeatedly shown that smallholder farmers can lead agricultural growth while stimulating broader economic development.

Agricultural development efforts should, therefore, focus on promoting the growth and sustainability of smallholder farmers and small rural businesses. This requires a more supportive regulatory environment, technical assistance, as well as connections to suppliers, distributors, and finance providers.

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.

Investment in agriculture in Africa must focus on creating a dynamic smallholder sector.

h. Farmers.

Support by farmers' organizations of individual farmers in adaptation and mitigation initiatives

They aren't farmers.

Africa s Urban Farmers

Contribution by farmers

The National Farmers' Union biofuel policy. The National Farmers' Union (NFU) of the United Kingdom

Farmers rebelled against the government.

Farmers are a different story.

Fifth, farmers organizations need support.

But farmers have a choice.

But supporting that smallholder in launching a farming business that could generate a five fold increase in income amounts to poverty eradication.

Like millions of other African cotton farmers, Madi has advantages over cotton farmers in other parts of the world.

A Big Chance for Small Farmers

A New Deal for Poor Farmers

Moreover, absentee farmers face unexpected problems.

For farmers, this means deeper debt.

For farmers, it translates into suicide.

Farmers borrow money from usurious private lenders.

Conflict between communities of farmers and pastoralists.

But, as one developing country minister put it, Our farmers can compete with America s farmers we just can t compete with America s Treasury.

It also provided training and technical support to 13,000 farmers in 14 counties and started assisting 748 livestock farmers in Nimba county.