- Smallholder Agriculture
Smallholder Agriculture is the major form of
food production in the world.ubsistence farming
It is typically based on
family farms in poor countries and is often associated with subsistence production - although this type of production is not absent in developed countries. In its economic use, the term 'smallholder agriculture' is often simply a description of the production unit, and it is also often assumed that the smallholder is a passing phase on the way toindustrial agriculture .Lifestyle farming
The term is also used to encapsulate the
lifestyle andworldview of smallholders as an integrated process that retains a link tonature . This holistic approach, often captured as a composite ofReligion-and-Agriculture , is thus seen as a basis for learning of the deficiencies of modernintensive agriculture and life in general.Smallholder agriculture in this second context is the basis of activities that aim to identify the contentedness of smallholders even in
poverty in comparison with persons following modernlifestyles . This process has been variously styled ashappiness andwisdom .See also
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Smallholding
* [http://www.smallholderagriculture.com A review of the issues confronting smallholder agriculture]
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