However, the challenges go beyond the integration of smallholders.
Bulgaria began its independence as a nation of smallholders with one of the most egalitarian land distributions in Europe.
Being the daughter of smallholders, my first love is producing fruit, veg and herbs for our kitchen.
They wanted him to stop responding to the complaints of smallholders in the area that their crops were being destroyed and their trees cut down.
It has supplied its mixture of credit and technical advice to some 550 borrowers, mostly co-operatives that aggregate the harvests of smallholders.
Gaius Laelius, probably during his consulship of 140, proposed a scheme of land redistribution to renew the class of smallholders, but it was rejected by the Senate.
It limited royal rights and prerogatives, confirmed basic rights of smallholders and nobles, guaranteed justice for all, and promised to improve the coinage.
It has begun work on regularising the status of smallholders through ISPO, but this needs to go faster and should also be aligned with other much-needed efforts.
Millions of smallholders in the developing countries — in China, India, Africa and Latin America — are already significantly benefiting from growing GM crops".
A large portion of their supply chains consist of a complex web of smallholders, middlemen and third-party suppliers, which makes traceability extremely difficult.
I've interviewed a lot of smallholders over the years and in most cases, a quest for greater self-sufficiency began with a back garden or allotment veg patch.
