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Other partners such as UNDP, UN Women, UNOPS and ILO allowed P4P to broaden its scope of action and tackle multifarious challenges faced by smallholder farmers. [ 14 ] Demand-side partners , including WFP , were crucial for the support smallholder farmers needed in order to produce crops that meet international quality standards used by WFP and ...
The COSA partnership with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, in Kenya and Uganda, led to new processes with the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) for conducting field research to advance the understanding of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers and the roles of their cooperatives. [21]
This ensures that smallholder farmers reduce their crop losses and produce more and safer food through sustainable crop production practices. Delivered through gender-sensitive and climate-resilient approaches, PlantwisePlus is tackling the challenges facing smallholder production through three impact pathways: Pest Preparedness, Pesticide Risk ...
In 2015, about 2 billion people (slightly more than 25% of the world's population) in 500 million households living in rural areas of developing nations survive as "smallholder" farmers, working less than 2 hectares (5 acres) of land. [7] Around 98% of China's farmers work on small farms, and China accounts for around half of the total world ...
The bulk of India's hungry and poor people are constituted of smallholder farmers and landless people. 78% country's farmers own less than 2 hectares (5 acres), which constitutes 33% of total farmland but at the same time, they produce 41% of the country's food grains. 20% of the world's poor live in India, although the country was self ...
A systemic risk faced by farmers is coffee price volatility. Coffee is the most accessible source of income for poor smallholder Ethiopian farmers. [26] However, coffee prices, being a commodity, are inherently more volatile than industrial products. [3]
To move toward sustainable agriculture, farmers are encouraged to utilize green pesticides, which cause less harm to both human health and habitats, but would entail a higher production cost. [98] Climate change is also a rapidly growing barrier, one that farmers have little control over, which can be seen through place-based barriers. [99]
Furthermore, the agriculture sector in Africa is dominated by smallholder farmers with limited access to technology and the resources to adapt. [ 198 ] Climate variability and change have been and continue to be the principal source of fluctuations in global food production across developing countries where production is highly rain-dependent ...