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Purchasers prefer dealing with few larger suppliers to less profitable local market outlets. Such local markets are also under threat with the offloading of surplus food produced by industrial agriculture.
Photo: G. Bizarri, Venezuela. |
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The political and financial difficulties with land distribution have led to renewed interest in finding other ways to make land accessible to poor farmers. Land transactions, whether through sales, sharecropping, tenancies, loans or gifts have provided a mechanism for having access to land.
Photo: A. Vitale, Kenya. |
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To promote rural development by creating a class of productive smallholder farmers and raising agricultural productivity is one of the objectives of redistributive land reforms (discussed at the ICARRD conference).
Photo: A. Vitale, Kenya. |
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There have been debates about farm size and productivity. Some argue that small farms should be consolidated into fewer large holdings, allowing for economies of scale and increased mechanisation. But the choice between large and smallholder farming systems is as much a question of politics, as of economics.
Photo: M. Longari. Madagascar. |
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