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Challenges and opportunities : workshop proceedings
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How smallholders may contribute to food and nutrition security remains a key challenge in many developing countries. Despite being the main rural actors, smallholders are frequently the most food insecure, given an array of biophysical and socioeconomic challenges that were addressed during the workshop. These proceedings discuss the potential role of smallholders in food security and in poverty
reduction. The opportunities and constraints are assessed, by analysing the availability, access and utilisation of production factors. The key message is that enhancing smallholders’ production capacities and their economic and social resilience may have a positive impact on food security and nutrition at different levels. However, not all smallholders are the same, and assistance strategies need to differentiate between smallholders who should be ‘moving up’ into more productive systems and those who should be ‘moving out’ of farming. The choice should depend on the type of constraints smallholders face. The analysis considers, in addition to the role of small farmers as food suppliers, smallholders’ role as consumers and their level of nutrition security. The link between agriculture and nutrition is analysed to understand how agriculture affects human health and dietary patterns. Given the importance of smallholder farms, strategies to increase productivity in agriculture are essential to improve food and nutrition security, as is food diversity. Finally, synergies and trade-offs between economic, environmental and social objectives and outcomes are analysed through an overview of the methods and tools used to assess food security on small farms at household level. Models at country level are usually focused on long-term conditions, but shortterm analyses would also be welcome. Developing global models to assess food security is also relevant, to include trade issues in the analysis. Models at farm household level in developing countries have a valuable role to play in the analysis of the impact of any policy on small farmers.
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Published:
2016-07-08
Corporate author(s):
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
(
Joint Research Centre
)
Personal author(s):
Sahn, David E
;
Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob
;
Hazell, Peter
;
Wiggins, Steve
;
Mishra, Ashok K
;
Riesgo, Laura
;
Gomez y Paloma, Sergio
;
Louhichi, Kamel
Themes:
Agriculture — Forestry — Fisheries
,
Africa, Caribbean and Pacific
Subject:
agricultural policy
,
agricultural production
,
agricultural productivity
,
competitiveness
,
developing countries
,
farming sector
,
financial aid
,
financial instrument
,
food production
,
food shortage
,
human nutrition
,
smallholding
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ISSN
1831-9424
ISBN
978-92-79-58016-1
DOI
10.2791/653314
Catalogue number
LF-04-16377-EN-N
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ISSN
1831-9424
ISBN
978-92-79-58016-1
DOI
10.2791/653314
Catalogue number
LF-04-16377-EN-N
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