Investments in “smallholder” family farming. Towards a New Deal

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Pierre-Marie Bosc
pierre-marie.bosc@cirad.fr
http://publications.cirad.fr/en/auteur.php?mat=1169
CIRAD, UMR MOISA

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https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00027

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family farms, agricultural policies, investment, food security, employment, poverty

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Investment in agriculture has declined since the 1980s, and public policies are needed to ensure smallholder farmers are able to invest in their farms. The priority objective is to create a secure, enabling environment so that these farmers can free up the necessary resources, in terms of both time and money. These policies span several different sectors and must therefore be integrated. This is the condition on which smallholder family farmers will be able to reach their full potential in contributing to food and nutrition security, job creation, the reduction of poverty and inequality, and territorial development.

Biographie de l'auteur

Pierre-Marie Bosc

Pierre-Marie BOSC is an agro-economist in the MOISA joint research unit (Markets, Organisations, Institutions and Operators’ Strategies, https://umr-moisa.cirad.fr/). Since the 1990s, his research has focused on innovation processes, rural and farmer organisations, and changes in family farming in the face of agricultural firms. He is at the origin of the World Agriculture Watch (http://www.fao.org/world-agriculture-watch/en/).

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Author's publications

Bélières J.-F., Bonnal P., Bosc P.-M., Losch B., Marzin J., Sourisseau J.-M., 2014. Les agricultures familiales du monde : définitions, contributions et politiques publiques. Paris, AFD, collection À savoir, 195 p. https://www.afd.fr/fr/les-agricultures-familiales-du-monde

Bosc P.-M., Marzin J., Bélières J.-F., Sourisseau J.-M., Bonnal P., Losch B., Pedelahore P., Parrot L., 2015. Defining, characterizing and measuring family farming models. In: Sourisseau J.-M. (ed.), Family farming and the Worlds to come. Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 37-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9358-2_3

Bosc P.-M., Sourisseau J.-M., Bonnal P., Gasselin P., Valette É., Bélières J.-F. (Eds), 2018. Diversity of family farming around the World. Existence, transformations and possible futures of family farms. Cham, Springer, 340 p. ISBN 978-94-024-1616-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1617-6

High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security (HLPE), 2013. Investing in smallholder agriculture for food security. Report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition. Rome, CFS-HLPE, 112 p. http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/reports/report-6-investing-in-smallholders-report-elaboration-process/en/

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2015-01-01

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Bosc, P.-M. (2015). Investments in “smallholder” family farming. Towards a New Deal. Perspective, (32), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00027

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No 32 (2015): Agriculture familiale

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Anglais

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