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Small-scale food producers are defined as farmers or entrepreneurs with limited opportunities who operate under structural constraints such as access to sub-optimal amounts of resources, technology, and markets (FAO 2017a). Other challenges for small-scale food producers include risk of poverty and hunger, lack of opportunities, dependence on household’s members for most of the labor for the production of staple food, low competitiveness, and need of support.
Small-scale farmsusually refer to small agricultural holdings (plot size usually up to 2 ha of land). FAO (2017) defines agricultural holding as “an economic unit of agricultural production under single management comprising all livestock kept and all land used wholly or partly for agricultural production purposes, without regard to title, legal form or size.” The size of...
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Sergaki, P., Michailidis, A. (2020). Small-Scale Food Producers: Challenges and Implications for SDG2. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95675-6_48
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