On Monday 28 January the second in a series of three public debates, organised by the University of Cambridge’s Strategic Initiative in Global Food Security and held in central London, will address some of the pressing issues that face millions of people around the world as the population continues to grow and demand for productive land increases.
A panel of eminent speakers from widely different backgrounds will engage with an audience in a discussion titled “Smallholder Farmers and the Future of Food” that sets subsistence farmers, whose contribution to food production is often overlooked in the race for higher yields, at the heart of a conversation that touches both on some of the world’s poorest communities and its most powerful organisations in the shape of governments and multinational companies.
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Image: Yam market in Accra, Ghana
Credit: Olaoluwa/IITA
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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How do smallholder farmers fit into the big picture of world food production?
23 January 2013
Worldwide 500 million smallholder farmers support a total of 2 billion people. A debate taking place in London next Monday (28 January) will put these producers at the centre of a discussion about ways to develop an agricultural model that will sustainably feed a growing population.