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.

The Small Family Farms Country Factsheets are based on the Smallholder Dataportrait developed by the Small Family Farms Team in ESA, which provides valuable insights on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world.

The Factsheets cover all four regions that are represented in the Smallholder Dataportrait, enabling a cross-regional as well as a cross-country comparison on how small family farmers live their lives. Just like the Smallholder Dataportrait acts as a dynamic hub, the Small Family Farms Country Factsheets are subject to regular updates and enlargement.

Whether in developing or emerging countries: Across the world family farms are the dominant type of firm in agriculture.

The Small Family Farms Team in ESA devotes its attention and work to small family farms and how their successful performance can contribute to poverty reduction and rural growth by reducing the price of staple food, by employing people in agriculture but also by creating jobs in the system that extends beyond primary production. Moreover, the Team’s publications take the considerable constraints into account that small family farms need to overcome to survive in today's modern markets and participate in the agriculture and food system.