From subsistence to profit: Transforming smallholder farms

Joanna Brzeska, Shenggen Fan, Alex Halsema and Michiel Keyzer

No 26, Food policy reports from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: This food policy report presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and development pathways for smallholder farmers in developing countries, and offers policy recommendations to help potentially profitable smallholders meet emerging risks and challenges.

Keywords: Smallholders; Farmers; Subsistence agriculture; Agricultural development; agricultural transformation; Commercial farming; Land; Land use; land access (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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