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Empty words won’t fill hungry stomachs

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There is good reason to be sceptical about the new initiatives coming out of Davos targeting smallholder farmers.

 

David Nally and Bhaskar Vira in Al Jazeera English.

This entry was posted in International Lessons, Small Farm Production, sustainability and tagged biofuel, commodity production, Davos, food markets, food security, food sovereignty, global food security, Green Revolution, land grab, land tenure, out-migration, peasant, rural, scale-up, small-scale, smallholders, subsistence, subsistence agriculture on January 27, 2013 by Phil.

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