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Small-scale producers key to attaining food security and ending hunger
2013-07-10 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Empowering small-scale producers to participate fully in development is one of the main components of the Food and Agriculture Organisation's efforts to improve food security and reduce hunger and poverty. As individual farmers are often dispersed, they may have little power to seize economic opportunities, or influence policies that affect them. Too often they are excluded from decision-making, whether in markets or in social and political fora. However, when rural producers come together in...
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