Small Scale Farming: An Organic Approach

Small Scale farming has traditionally been perceived as a backward trend and was neglected by policy makers, institutions and academic during the past decades. Investment in small-scale farming and rural development has steeply declined over the last decades from an already low starting point. With low accessibility and little purchasing power, small farmers and their communities, especially in remote areas, are not attractive partners for modern agribusinesses and global markets.

Neither most of the technology breakthroughs in agricultural research ad development nor the development of a global market for agricultural products has benefited the majority of small farmers worldwide. In fact, millions of small farmers have been entangled in a vicious downward cycle of decapitalization over the past decades that make it difficult to secure the food for their communities, maintain their traditional roles and invest in improvement and adaptation of their farming operations.