TY  - BP
AU  - Güereña,D.T.
TI  - Chapter 15 : : Supporting smallholders in maintaining soil health: key challenges and strategies
PY  - 2018///
CY  - United Kingdom : 
PB  - Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, 
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Smallholders
KW  - Food production
KW  - Soil improvement
N1  - Peer review
N2  - Smallholder farmers are critical to global soil health and food production. Lowder et al. (2016) estimated that smallholders account for 97% of all farms, but control less than 30% of the global farmland. Smallholder farmers also have an important contribution to the global production of food for human consumption. It is estimated that over 50% of all food calories produced are grown in smallholder systems (Samberg et al., 2016). However, their presence is not uniformly distributed. Smallholder farmers are concentrated in regions with high vulnerability to soil health degradation and poverty; lower-income tropical East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (Fig. 1). Geographically, the areas of highest smallholder farmer density also correspond to the hot spots of global poverty. The lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers are intimately linked to soil health.
Empowering smallholder farmers to maintain soil health is a critical tool in the fight against poverty (Sanchez, 2002)
UR  - http://libcatalog.cimmyt.org/download/cis/60203.pdf
T2  - Managing soil health for sustainable agriculture
ER  -