Half a billion family farms

Family farms account for 500 million of the estimated 570 million farms in the world, says Insights magazine, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute, a think tank. “Farming is one of the last economic activities performed largely by families working together.” On average, family farms are smaller than nonfamily farms – 475 million farms are less than… » Read More

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