Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a
continued focus on food production. Farming not merely needs to sustainably produce …

Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the share of the world's food produced by
family farms and by farms of different sizes. This paper updates estimates of the number of …

Smallholder farming is the most prevalent form of agriculture in the world, supports many of
the planet's most vulnerable populations, and coexists with some of its most diverse and …

Global support for Conservation Agriculture (CA) as a pathway to Sustainable Intensification
is strong. CA revolves around three principles: no-till (or minimal soil disturbance), soil …

Strategic planning for global agricultural R&D is hampered by a lack of comparable data on
target populations. Surprisingly, even the global number of crop-specific farms are …

The contribution of small farms to local food supply, food security and food sovereignty is
widely acknowledged at a global level. In the particular case of Europe, they often are seen …

African mixed crop–livestock systems are vulnerable to climate change and need to adapt in
order to improve productivity and sustain people's livelihoods. These smallholder systems …

It is often claimed that cocoa producers are poor, but the extent of their poverty is rarely
defined. We analyzed six data sets derived from household questionnaires of 385–88,896 …

The objective of this study was to evaluate consumer habits as well as the sensory
perception and characteristics of farm eggs produced in Los Ríos, Chile. Data were …