According to 'This is Africa: Global Perspective- special report; June 2013' a third of the world's population - 2.3 billion people - depend on food produced by smallholder farmers.
The regions where a large majority of farmers operate on less than two hectares of land, such as in Africa and South Asia, are the ones where hunger is the most widespread.
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