Family Farming Knowledge Platform

Family Farmers: Feeding the world, caring for the earth

Family farming is inextricably linked to national and global food security. Both in developing and developed countries, family farming is the predominant form of agriculture in the food production sector. Family farmers carefully manage their lands to sustain remarkably high levels of productivity despite having less access to productive resources such as agricultural inputs and support (most research shows an inverse relationship between land size and productivity).

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Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Year: 2014
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Type: Fact sheet
Content language: English
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