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The smallholder farmers' dataportrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world. It generates an image on how small family farmers in developing and emerging countries live their lives. It is about putting in numbers, the constraints they face, and the choices they make so that policies can be informed by evidence to meet the challenge of agricultural development. Currently, the data portrait provides information for nineteen countries.

Smallholders Data Portrait: Methodology and Data Description

A data portrait of smallholder farmers: An introduction to a dataset on small-scale agriculture

			Hectare weighted median
			Smaller farm	Other farm	Nationally
Sub-Saharan Africa	Ethiopia, 2012	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	1246	2005	1438
		% of income from crop production	62.4	74.2	65.4
		% of income from on farm income	79.3	91.6	82.4
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	5.7	2.5	4.9
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	7.9	2.4	6.5
		% of income from public and private transfers	3.5	1.2	2.9
		% of income from other sources	3.6	2.3	3.2
		Poverty rate	67	66	67
	Ghana, 2013	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	2690	4412	3050
		% of income from crop production	56.2	70.4	59.2
		% of income from on farm income	60.7	75.8	63.9
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	1.1	0.7	1
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	23.5	12.1	21.1
		% of income from public and private transfers	8.7	4.6	7.8
		% of income from other sources	6	6.9	6.2
		Poverty rate	56	55	55
	Kenya, 2005	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	2819	4445	3130
		% of income from crop production	43.1	42.5	43
		% of income from on farm income	60.5	61.5	60.7
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	5.7	3.8	5.3
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	19.8	20.2	19.9
		% of income from public and private transfers	9.8	9.8	9.8
		% of income from other sources	4.2	4.7	4.3
		Poverty rate	49	46	48
	Malawi, 2011	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	1840	2191	1929
		% of income from crop production	53	65	56
		% of income from on farm income	58	71	61
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	19	10	16
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	19	16	18
		% of income from public and private transfers	4	2	3
		% of income from other sources	0.5	0.6	0.6
		Poverty rate	59	47	56
	Niger, 2011	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	3160	3795	3302
		% of income from crop production	32	36	33
		% of income from on farm income	41	44	42
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	6	6	6
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	42	40	42
		% of income from public and private transfers	11	10	11
		% of income from other sources	0.1	0.1	0.1
		Poverty rate	53	55	53
	Nigeria, 2013	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	9815	7095	9483
		% of income from crop production	49	56	50
		% of income from on farm income	55	60	55
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	1	1	1
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	43	37	42
		% of income from public and private transfers	0.3	0.2	0.3
		% of income from other sources	2.0	0.9	1.9
		Poverty rate	44	58	46
	Uganda, 2012	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	2897	5758	3219
		% of income from crop production	54	50	54
		% of income from on farm income	59	62	60
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	4	3	4
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	29	28	29
		% of income from public and private transfers	7	4	7
		% of income from other sources	1	3.3	1.3
		Poverty rate	27	20	26
	United Republic of Tanzania, 2013	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	5032	6918	5349
		% of income from crop production	47	54	48
		% of income from on farm income	56	67	58
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	7	3	7
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	30	26	30
		% of income from public and private transfers	4.66	2.59	4.31
		% of income from other sources	1.8	1.2	1.7
		Poverty rate	39	40	39
Asia	Bangladesh, 2005	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	5099	9047	5721
		% of income from crop production	29	53	32
		% of income from on farm income	36	62	40
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	12	1	11
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	34	22	32
		% of income from public and private transfers	7.3	5.43	7
		% of income from other sources	10.1	9.2	9.9
		Poverty rate	43	21	39
	Cambodia, 2004	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	2950	4373	3186
		% of income from crop production	48	56	50
		% of income from on farm income	67	77	69
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	2	1	2
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	26	18	25
		% of income from public and private transfers	3	2	3
		% of income from other sources	0.9	0.8	0.9
		Poverty rate	55	53	55
	Indonesia, 2000	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	1967	3284	2075
		% of income from crop production	47	50	47
		% of income from on farm income	49	52	49
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	6	4	6
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	30	32	30
		% of income from public and private transfers	12	10	12
		% of income from other sources	2.8	3	2.8
		Poverty rate	18	14	18
	Nepal, 2003	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	5161	5417	5216
		% of income from crop production	37	53	40
		% of income from on farm income	51	68	54
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	10	3	8
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	25	18	23
		% of income from public and private transfers	13	9	12
		% of income from other sources	2.1	1.9	2.1
		Poverty rate	35	28	33
	Viet Nam, 2008	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	6609	10204	7022
		% of income from crop production	38	63	41
		% of income from on farm income	56	79	59
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	4	3	4
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	26	11	24
		% of income from public and private transfers	12	5	11
		% of income from other sources	1.9	2.4	2
		Poverty rate	59	58	59
Latin America and the Caribbean	Bolivia (Plurinational State of), 2005	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	7456	17906	8182
		% of income from crop production	34	42	35
		% of income from on farm income	46	51	46
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	1	2	1
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	46	44	45
		% of income from public and private transfers	7	4	7
		% of income from other sources	0.5	0.6	0.5
		Poverty rate	83	65	81
	Guatemala, 2006	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	6772	7146	6840
		% of income from crop production	21	45	26
		% of income from on farm income	24	49	28
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	18	10	16
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	40	26	37
		% of income from public and private transfers	18	15	18
		% of income from other sources	0.6	0.6	0.6
		Poverty rate	75	73	74
	Nicaragua, 2005	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	11783	23905	12519
		% of income from crop production	23	16	22
		% of income from on farm income	29	40	30
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	26	24	26
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	37	33	37
		% of income from public and private transfers	6	2	6
		% of income from other sources	0.5	0.7	0.5
		Poverty rate	65	46	64
	Panama, 2003	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	11110	18628	11428
		% of income from crop production	20	17	20
		% of income from on farm income	27	49	28
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	15	5	15
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	44	37	43
		% of income from public and private transfers	13	8	13
		% of income from other sources	1.5	1.3	1.5
		Poverty rate	67	52	66
Europe & Central Asia	Albania, 2005	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	15598	17574	16110
		% of income from crop production	20	29	22
		% of income from on farm income	45	57	48
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	2	3	2
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	28	17	25
		% of income from public and private transfers	24	22	24
		% of income from other sources	0.5	0.7	0.6
		Poverty rate	22	21	22
	Tajikistan, 2007	Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)	5056	7105	5234
		% of income from crop production	40	50	41
		% of income from on farm income	44	60	46
		% of income from agricultural wage labor	14	4	13
		% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment	37	29	36
		% of income from public and private transfers	4	4	4
		% of income from other sources	1.2	2.6	1.3
		Poverty rate	55	54	55

Notes:

% of income from on farm income : Income from crop production, crop byproducts, livestock and livestock byproducts.
Poverty rate: poverty headcount at National Poverty Line.

Household income (const. 2009 Int.$)

% of income from crop production

% of income from on farm income

% of income from agricultural wage labor

% of income from non agricultural wages and self employment

% of income from public and private transfers

% of income from other sources

Poverty rate

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