Headlines AfricaNov 20
Africa: Will COP30 Put Africa's Smallholders At the Centre of Climate Action?: [Nyasa Times] On a road in Kenya's Makueni County, a woman loads sacks of pigeon pea onto a motorbike. Her landscape is rehabilitated, soils restored, seeds climate-resilient, markets ready, and a weather alert on her phone shows when it will rain. Each element exists because financing, science, extension… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPMhDd #COP30 #ClimateAction #Smallholders #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateResilience
Steve Dustcircle 🌹May 29, 2025

#Nicaragua #Coffee Report:
#Weather Helps Production Though #Smallholders Challenged

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/05/28/nicaragua-coffee-report-weather-helps-production-though-smallholders-challenged/

Nicaragua Coffee Report: Weather Helps Production Though Smallholders Challenged

the latest USDA FAS annual report on the Nicaragua coffee sector predicts steady production despite labor shortages and export bottlenecks.

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EURACTIV Energy & EnvironmentSep 9, 2024
The EUDR needs corrective action to work [Promoted content] [Advocacy Lab Content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/the-eudr-needs-corrective-action-to-work/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #deforestation #EUDR #palmoil #promoted #smallholders
The EUDR needs corrective action to work

The EU Deforestation Regulation in its current form will result in perverse outcomes that harm the world’s p

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Alexander J. SteinJan 10, 2024
#Ghana: Minimum #tillage adoption boosts maize #yields (+4%) & dietary diversity (+14%), and decreases household #foodinsecurity (-42%) & labor demand (-11%), highlighting the need to promote #smallholders adoption: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287441 #Africa #maize #nutrition #foodsecurity
Minimum tillage as climate-smart agriculture practice and its impact on food and nutrition security

Minimum tillage (MT) is a sustainable farming practice that limit soil disturbance only to planting stations while leaving the rest of the soil undisturbed. It is an important component of conservation agriculture, which aims to raise agricultural productivity, improve the livelihoods of farmers and build resilient farming systems. Despite the growing empirical literature on its adoption and benefits, there is a paucity of empirical evidence on the heterogeneous effect of length of MT adoption on household welfare. This study uses plot-level and household data combined with geo-referenced historical weather data to provide microeconomic evidence of the impact of MT on maize yields, food and nutrition security, and farm labor demand in Ghana. We account for potential selection bias and omitted variable problems by using an ordered probit selection model to estimate two transition-specific treatment effects: from conventional tillage systems to short-term MT adoption and from short-term to long-term MT adoption. The empirical results show that longer cropping seasons of MT adoption significantly increases maize yields and dietary diversity by about 4.33% and 14.22%, respectively, and decreases household food insecurity and labor demand by 42.31% and 11.09%, respectively. These findings highlight the necessity of developing and implementing programs that promote and help smallholder farmers to sustain its adoption for longer cropping season.

Alexander J. SteinDec 6, 2023
#Ethiopia: Smallholder commercialisation is linked to rural household incomes, benefitting poor households most. Supporting poor & marginalised #farmers to boost #agriculture production & commercialisation can help rural development: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbad040 #smallholders #markets
Smallholder commercialisation and rural household welfare: panel data evidence from Ethiopia

Abstract. This paper examines the relationship between smallholder commercialisation and rural household welfare. Employing a comprehensive three-wave panel dat

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Alexander J. SteinOct 21, 2023
Better #agriculture technologies are #costeffective for improving #foodsecurity: Adoption of improved #groundnut varieties in #Nigeria increased household consumption. Quality #seeds should be made available to #smallholders at affordable prices: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2023.100817 #poverty
Show threadAnitaH2Oct 18, 2023
The well in question, and some beans sowed to harvest seeds for next season's crops.
#SeedSovereignity is really important for #SmallHolders in developing countries.
Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJul 20, 2023

@Rasp @billstclair
We should add a rather large caveat to what we wrote above.

In today's #neocolonial system, where the #moneySupply is the means of #extraction from the worker (plunder) it is almost impossible to achieve the above stated work environment.

The #corporatist system that allows #moneyPrinting to protect politically connected corporations that are #tooBigToExist, means that the vast majority of #smallHolders are made made extinct.

#bitcoinFixesThis

Bernd LangeJun 26, 2023

We had a really good meeting, thanks
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Frans Köster: "We welcome the establishment of a consultation mechanism or dialogue platform (such as a task force) between #Indonesia, #Malaysia, #EU to discuss #EUDR Implementation Guidelines to not burden #smallholders,": EP INTA chair @berndlange #deforestation. https://en.antaranews.com/news/285942/hartarto-european-parliament-delegates-discuss-ieu-cepa
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/berndlange/status/1671806522232381440

Hartarto, European Parliament delegates discuss IEU-CEPA

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto has discussed accelerating the completion of the Indonesia-European Union ...

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Pauline von HellermannMar 20, 2023

How big a garden would you need to be self-sufficent?

Many different answers to that question here. Maybe interesting for #smallholders #Crofters #Garden #Permaculture #AllotmentChat people? One of my favouite replies was:

“There are no self-sufficient agriculturalists. The base unit for success is probably about 50 people. The first thing to cultivate is friends.”MarnaNightingale

(Maybe that’s because I am an #anthropologist, not a crofter 😊)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/19/readers-reply-how-big-a-garden-would-you-need-to-be-self-sufficient-for-a-family-of-four?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Readers reply: how big a garden would you need to be self-sufficient for a family of four?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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