small-scale farmers

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Therefore, intercropping maize and common bean is more advantageous than sole cropping, and should be recommended especially for small-scale farmers.
Farmers' markets play a vital role in enabling small-scale farmers to gain direct access to customers.
Such certifications in general can offer coffee growers (large plantation owners as well as small-scale farmers) significant economic benefits through higher prices.
Nevertheless, agricultural risk is prevalent throughout the world, and it is particularly burdensome to small-scale farmers in developing countries.
Given the predominance of small-scale farmers and paid labourers in agrarian cooperatives, these organisations simply disappeared for lack of bourgeois support.
The overall results clearly indicate that small-scale farmers were able to multiply minitubers successfully.
The large economies of scale enjoyed by the large farmers, prevented the small-scale farmers from farming in this area.
While direct sales have provided some relief to small-scale farmers in recent years, some farmers are denied access because venues are filled or simply unavailable.
She questions one of his central premises - that small-scale farmers are necessarily more environmentally sensitive than large-scale ones.
However, these rates are far too expensive for most small-scale farmers.
Policy makers must, however, balance the needs of small-scale farmers with those of other segments of society.
Enclosure involved a negotiation between large landowners and the committees representing tenants and small-scale farmers.
Many of the chefs and consumers supporting small-scale farmers simply value the superior niche-market product35.
The livestock revolution, food safety, and small-scale farmers: why they matter to us all.
Millions of small-scale farmers in the developing world have benefited.
The two main types of agrarian producers are landowners, who are mostly large-scale farmers, and tenants, who conversely are mostly small-scale farmers.
Small-scale farmers are more productive in terms of output per land unit, but not in terms of output per unit of labour.
During the current survey, the land holding size for small-scale farmers in the region was found to be 21.17 ha per household.
For example, are small-scale farmers, who are often the targeted beneficiaries of participatory breeding projects in developing countries, more interested than large-scale farmers?
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