Sentence examples for few smallholder from inspiring English sources

Accessibility (by road, track, or river) appeared to be the most important factor when choosing the location of the few smallholder plantations seen in our study villages.

Ordóñez agrees: "There are very few smallholders.

The few smallholders who decide to plant timber trees have a preference for separate pure stands of timber trees.

Amerindian culture dictates maize as the staple crop; a smallholder farming a few acres with a hoe cannot compete with Iowa combines.

Malawi has few landless poor people, though many smallholders are net food buyers.The impact of higher food prices varies dramatically from place to place.

To some extent the peculiar Athenian disabilities were due to a desire on the part of the polis to ensure that estates did not become concentrated in few hands, thus undermining the democracy of smallholders.

As production of honey is largely in the hands of smallholders who own only a few beehives, it offers a small amount to the market from which the majority (about 80%%) is supplied to local mead brewers (Gezahegn et al. 2006; Melaku et al., 2008).

Smallholder farmers use hand hoes and few external inputs, and they mainly produce food crops such as corn (maize), sorghum, millet, cassava (manioc), and groundnuts (peanuts).

However, with few long-term REDD + pilot projects implemented with smallholders, this paper attempts to anticipate potential synergies and constraints of such initiatives from smallholders' point of view by developing a framework to examine the capacities of two rural communities in Cameroon as a case study.

The example of sugar cane is instructive as it is one of the few crops for which companies will offer credit to smallholders from the day of planting.

These are just a few examples of efforts underway around the world to help smallholder farmers deal with the most alarming aspect of climate change: the threat it poses to our world's food systems.