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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a smallholder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a farmer who owns a small plot of land and typically engages in subsistence farming or small-scale agriculture.
Example: "The government is implementing new policies to support a smallholder in improving crop yields and accessing markets."
Alternatives: "a small-scale farmer" or "a subsistence farmer."
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I'm not a smallholder, though.
There are days when I imagine myself as a smallholder.
This represents about three months' labour for a smallholder farmer.
Seasonal planting is "useless", agrees Florence Madamu, a smallholder in Bulirehe, in western Uganda.
"What can a smallholder do if he doesn't have access to infrastructure, access to market, access to training?
LL Aba Mamadou from Niger is a smallholder farmer and fisherman from the islands in Lake Chad.
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Mary Wanjiku, 23, opened her gate to reveal a typical smallholder farming household including a couple of lively chickens, three goats and a sleepy guard dog lying next to its scrawny brown puppy.
Not being a medieval smallholder, however, I sometimes find myself out of sync with seasonal traditions.
The UK consistently buys more than half of the country's exports, with certified schemes like Fairtrade helping to maintain a strong smallholder sector that would otherwise be unable to compete with large-scale plantation farms.
This year's event has a new smallholder centre, offering advice as well as equipment and ideas on how to get started.
The program's mission is to aid more than a million smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with improved planting methods that can help them grow healthier crops more resistant to disease.
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