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Hivos small scale producers in a globalised world
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Globalisation of insight: Small-scale farmers in the face of globalisation and
rapid rural change
Bill Vorley, IIED
The shopping list for the world’s ½ billion small farms gets even longer..
• Food security• Rural poverty reduction• Managed economic transition, social cohesion• Climate change resilience /adaptation• Ecosystem services incl. soil carbon sequestration• Secure supplies for agribusiness
In the face of..• Globalisation (of trade and of expectations)• Major demographic transition, few jobs in the formal wage
economy, pluriactivity (farm/non-farm; multiple markets)• Volatile markets, new buyers• Demise of public extension/revolution in access to
information• Natural resource squeeze
The Knowledge Programme process
• Better informed policies and practices in small-scale agriculture in the face of globalisation and rapid rural change, through..
• An agency perspective • Stirring debate, challenge assumptions• Co-learning, across stakes (business,
research, civil society, farmer organisations) and regions (L America, Africa, Asia)
• Globalisation of insight: new knowledge, reframing the debate
Focus on where rural households are and how they make choices, rather than as beneficiaries of external interventions
A series of ‘Provocations’
A global Learning Network
Commissioned research
Small-scale farmers and globalizing markets:Conflicting calls for small farmer empowerment
Globalisation can and must be reversed
Small-scale farmers are an anachronism
Cooperate to compete in value chains and niche markets
Small-scale farmers are the future
Join labour market, farm and non-farm work
Globalisation is inevitable and incontrovertible
Claim rights to protect small-scale farming from globalisation
After Murphy, 2010
High expectations from the private sector as a partner in smallholder agriculture
Globalisation can and must be reversed
Small-scale farmers are an anachronism
Join labour market, farm and non-farm work
Globalisation is inevitable and incontrovertible
Claim rights to protect small-scale farming from globalisation
Small-scale farmers are the future
Cooperate to compete in value chains and niche markets
Small farmers as active economic agents
• Smallholders in markets
• Smallholders in organisations
• Smallholders in policy
• Informal sector remains major link between smallholders and consumers
• Majority not formally organised in the market. Much organisation is trader-driven
• Top 2-10% can compete in modern markets
• Successes in cooperatives.
• Successes in policy
The 2-10% visible and accessible to business, policy and NGO interventions
The reality of the majority of small farmers who are in the market
Markets “Upgrade to high value markets”Formal single-product market, value chains, certified production
Informal trade works better for smallholder realities, and remains the dominant link between small-scale farmers and urban poor
Organisations “Cooperate to compete”. Specialised cooperativesTrader and processor-driven producer organisations
The majority of small-scale producers, esp. poorer households, are not formally organised in the market
Policies “Get the institutions right to make markets work”
State policy often viewed with distrust as force of exclusion
A call to business, policymakers and service providers
• We come to Rio with long shopping lists for smallholder agriculture• We expect multiple wins -- poverty reduction, food security, security of
supply, ecosystem services, rural development -- from single tools, such as linking organised smallholders to new markets
• Those wins are often elusive – in scale and inclusiveness• Knowledge Programme -- small-scale farmers as active economic agents• Agency may often lead away from formal markets, formal organisations
or state policies and institutions. • Avoiding elitism in sustainable development interventions requires an
understanding of this• Implications for policy: sector-wide approaches; inclusive formalisation,
rather than ‘islands’ of inclusion
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