The Multiple Functions and Benefits of Small Farm Agriculture in the Context of Global Trade Negotiations

By P. Rosset. 2000

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. C. Kremen
2. Albie F. Miles
3. Alastair Iles
4. Chris Bacon
5. A. Sagar
6. M. Altieri
7. K. Mcafee
8. Sivan Kartha

In Soil Science

1. Alastair Iles
2. Chris Bacon
3. A. Sagar
4. M. Altieri
5. Albie F. Miles
6. K. Mcafee
7. C. Kremen
8. Sivan Kartha

Citations in the corpus

• Neoliberalism on the molecular scale. Economic and genetic reductionism in biotechnology battles (2003, background): “Because small- and medium-scale farmers still produce the greater part of the world s food, such agricultural biodiversity is vital to food security (Rosset, 1999, 2001; Altieri, 1995; Pimbert, 1999).”
• Food crises, food regimes and food movements: rumblings of reform or tides of transformation? (2011, unknown): “…the science of agroecology demonstrating that organic agriculture and small farms can easily meet present and future demands for global food production, and that these forms of production are better suited to sustaining rural livelihoods (Rosset 1999, Pretty and Hine 2000, Badgely et al. 2007).”
• The Myth of Coexistence: Why Transgenic Crops Are Not Compatible With Agroecologically Based Systems of Production (2005, background): “By massively promoting agroecological techniques in both urban and rural areas, productivity levels in the island have recovered substantially.”
• Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture (2012, background): “Nonetheless, they do not necessarily maximize the total yield per land area or energy use (Rosset 1999, Hefland and Levine 2004, Lynch et al. 2011).”
• How not to think of land-grabbing: three critiques of large-scale investments in farmland (2011, background): “…farms will either be driven out, or will only subsist at the expense of smallholders living under conditions of 15On the inverse farm size–productivity relationship and scale effects in agriculture, see (Banerjee 1999, 1–5), Borras et al. (2007, 1), Rosset (1999), Barrett (1993), and Feder (1985).”
• Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified Farming Systems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks Ecosystem Services in Biologically Diversified versus Conventional Farming Systems: Benefits, Externalities, and Trade-Offs (2012, background): “In addition, small farms are generally more productive in total output per hectare than larger farms, and this relationship is attributed in part to the diversified nature of smaller farms and their resource intensive use of land (reviewed in Rosset 1999).”
• Bioenergy and sustainable development (2007, background): “It must begin by focusing on the multifunctional nature of small farms, which are already often quite efficient and productive (even if yields are low by the metric of single crops), can contribute to economic development where it is most needed, and can help sustain rural communities (196).”