Unheard Voices- The Case for Supporting the Marginal Farmer

Author:
John Madeley, Karl Deering, Ra Tiedemann-Nkabinde, Ruchi Tripathi
Publisher:
Concern Worldwide UK
Publication Date:
1 October 2007
Tags:
Food and Agriculture, Europe and Africa, Environment

Half of the world’s undernourished people, three-quarters of Africa’s malnourished children and the majority of people living in absolute poverty, live on small farms.1 Most of them farm between 0.2 of a hectare and two hectares of land, producing food mainly for their own families. Living on the margins of society, often without links to markets and struggling to make ends meet, these farming families are at the heart of the world’s poverty and hunger problems.

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