infrastructure needed for opening vast tracts of unused lands. However, where the communities of indigenous smallholders had already … plantation system loomed. However, reforms aimed to break down plantations to the operation of smallholders by a government …

Africa, Latin America and Asia, who number up to 570 million farms or 2 billion people. Given the sheer size of this figure …There is a widely held consensus that it will not be possible to feed the world without the help of the smallholders of … businesses and products. As efficient as external inputs may be, poorer smallholders are rarely able to bear the costs and risks …