Technical-service stations are being developed where small farmers can buy simple equipment against future earnings.
In Africa, South Asia and Central America most small farmers consume more food than they produce.
But, unsurprisingly, many of the small farmers have got into difficulty and have had to sell up.
Another type of early impact relates to dispossession and forced displacement of small farmers, pastoralists and indigenous peoples.
The root challenge is to improve the low productivity of 1.5 billion small farmers in the developing world.
Weather-derivatives contracts are meant to protect small farmers in Africa from food shortages and famines caused by drought.
As many as 65, 000 small farmers supply cane to Renuka's seven Indian mills.
He wanted the great sugar estates broken up and land distributed to small farmers, who would grow other crops.
The kind of small farmers targeted by the scheme tend to be the most reluctant to default, he argues.
Some small farmers with fields next to rivers have lost them for good.
Water markets do not protect small farmers, the poorest communities and natural ecosystems.
Subsidies are paid on the basis of output or acreage, which means big farmers get more money than small farmers.
Ban said countries must also expand microcredit to small farmers, minimize trade barriers and tariffs, and boost investment in agriculture.
In places such as Kentucky and Tennessee, small farmers are using government money to replace unhealthy tobacco with healthy goats.
Subsidies were created during the Depression of the 1930s to help small farmers and ensure domestic production of food and cotton.
When his father got into the business, eggs came from small farmers, who gathered them up and sold them to dealers.
What we did and what we are still doing is working very closely with the small farmers all over the world.
The advantages of a generous FTA will outweigh the competitive disadvantages for small farmers and foster agricultural diversification away from Coca planting.
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Most small farmers in poor regions, including Punjab, cannot afford them anyway.
The package follows another new measure announced by Mr Reddy - the free supply of electricity to small farmers and poor families.
After the veto, Mr Simmons lamented the harm done to small farmers.
Such niches, says Carolyn Orr of CSG, may help small farmers survive.
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Chartres said that low-cost sustainable techniques can double yields for small farmers.
The analysis suggests that foreign multinational corporations promoting genetically modified cottonseed in India are impinging on the rights of small farmers in India.
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But firms are finding ways to improve the lot of small farmers, and burnish their own reputations, without signing up to Fairtrade's rules.
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The government raised the pay of public employees, forgave the loans of small farmers and expanded its public-works scheme for the rural poor.
In his budget Mr Chidambaram promised to wash clean the slates of about 30m small farmers by the time the next monsoon falls.
Even now, calf raising, which is largely a matter of looking after cows and calves as they forage, is run by small farmers.
It has been used successfully in agricultural lessons with small farmers in Buduias, where PILCD has established an agricultural demonstration farm for practical lessons.
Since India has hundreds of millions of small farmers, and a powerful bloc of wealthy farmers, that's a tax break few politicians dare challenge.
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