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#Nicaragua #Coffee Report:
#Weather Helps Production Though #Smallholders Challenged

https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/05/28/nicaragua-coffee-report-weather-helps-production-though-smallholders-challenged/

The EUDR needs corrective action to work [Promoted content] [Advocacy Lab Content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/the-eudr-needs-corrective-action-to-work/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #deforestation #EUDR #palmoil #promoted #smallholders

#Ghana: Minimum #tillage adoption boosts maize #yields (+4%) & dietary diversity (+14%), and decreases household #foodinsecurity (-42%) & labor demand (-11%), highlighting the need to promote #smallholders adoption: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287441 #Africa #maize #nutrition #foodsecurity

#Ethiopia: Smallholder commercialisation is linked to rural household incomes, benefitting poor households most. Supporting poor & marginalised #farmers to boost #agriculture production & commercialisation can help rural development: https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbad040 #smallholders #markets

Better #agriculture technologies are #costeffective for improving #foodsecurity: Adoption of improved #groundnut varieties in #Nigeria increased household consumption. Quality #seeds should be made available to #smallholders at affordable prices: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2023.100817 #poverty

The well in question, and some beans sowed to harvest seeds for next season's crops.
#SeedSovereignity is really important for #SmallHolders in developing countries.

A well with high walls, wet cement around it.
An orange rope winded around a horisontal tree stem for lifting the water. A barrel and some big cans in the background.

A field of low beans bushes.
Some unknown seedlings i front. The soil is reddish brown, and is looking well watered.
There are trees around.

@Rasp @billstclair
We should add a rather large caveat to what we wrote above.

In today's #neocolonial system, where the #moneySupply is the means of #extraction from the worker (plunder) it is almost impossible to achieve the above stated work environment.

The #corporatist system that allows #moneyPrinting to protect politically connected corporations that are #tooBigToExist, means that the vast majority of #smallHolders are made made extinct.

#bitcoinFixesThis

We had a really good meeting, thanks
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Frans Köster: "We welcome the establishment of a consultation mechanism or dialogue platform (such as a task force) between #Indonesia, #Malaysia, #EU to discuss #EUDR Implementation Guidelines to not burden #smallholders,": EP INTA chair @berndlange #deforestation. https://en.antaranews.com/news/285942/hartarto-european-parliament-delegates-discuss-ieu-cepa
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/berndlange/status/1671806522232381440

How big a garden would you need to be self-sufficent?

Many different answers to that question here. Maybe interesting for #smallholders #Crofters #Garden #Permaculture #AllotmentChat people? One of my favouite replies was:

“There are no self-sufficient agriculturalists. The base unit for success is probably about 50 people. The first thing to cultivate is friends.”MarnaNightingale

(Maybe that’s because I am an #anthropologist, not a crofter 😊)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/19/readers-reply-how-big-a-garden-would-you-need-to-be-self-sufficient-for-a-family-of-four?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@shonin just read your blog - really enjoyed it it @ScotHomestead #Homestead might be another hashtag to try out to connect to other #smallholders (like Shonin) on here

RT @Solidaridadnetw: Reminder for @larawoltersEU @AdrianVL1982 @AxelVossMdEP @HeidiHautala @ManonAubryFr as @europarl_en develops its position on potentially ground-breaking #CSDDD of how it can better equip companies in Europe to support #smallholders at start of value chains https://t.co/k8c5aY81J5

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/HeidiHautala/status/1630450960718786560

🎉 🎉 Just #published!

We discuss the relevance of using #native varieties of #cacao to improve #FoodSecurity and #ecological #sustainability for #smallholders in South America.
Read, #OpenAccess here:
http://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12936
@FuncAgroEco

Something that I have been missing here is my smallholder friends. They don’t seem ready to switch to a new platform.

So, today I started searching for #gardening #NoDigGardening #smallholders or anything related to growing food and living lightly on the planet. The experience has been cathartic.