Indeed, it is not unusual for foreign investors to pay less tax than local smallholders.
Most smallholders refused to budge, and the government chose not to pursue the matter.
Much of the coffee land farmed by smallholders could, by law, be claimed by the state.
But many smallholders, such as Mr Langin, could not survive without help, whatever their willingness to adapt.
Few smallholders can afford to invest in farm machinery, so the land is still worked by hand.
As a result, smallholders present a compelling opportunity for buyers, lenders, and other actors in the agricultural value chain.
By one estimate, over 100, 000 smallholders have given up in the last decade.
Most southern African farmers are smallholders with less choice of hybrid varieties.
The process, mostly run by Smallholders in the farm and environment ministries and the special Phare office, had been, he said, a near-catastrophe.
If Mr Tusk can dump his coalition partner, the smallholders' People's Party, he will find it easier to prune wasteful subsidies for farmers.
As population growth and rising incomes create unprecedented demand for food, multinational companies increasingly rely on smallholders to secure their supply of agricultural commodities.
Under Ms Rousseff's veto, the amnesty sought by ruralistas will apply only to smallholders, who will still have to replant 20% of their plots.
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They wanted him to stop responding to the complaints of smallholders in the area that their crops were being destroyed and their trees cut down.
Kenya's Equity Bank has formed an alliance with groups such as The International Fund for Agricultural Development to reduce its risks when lending to smallholders.
The Smallholders' curious behaviour does not end with Hungary's own money.
Mr Orban needs the Smallholders to keep his government in office.
Half a million smallholders in Ghana alone use such techniques, and in Burkina Faso they have helped almost triple vegetable production over the past 15 years.
Land reform might help ease tensions in the countryside, but the government does not have the cash to turn many of the landless rural poor into smallholders.
Such changes will take time, yet the smallholders are impatient.
Strengthening these farms is also important for the environment, as smallholders represent stewards of natural resources that are in need of sustainable management to prevent deforestation and the degradation of ecosystems.
He has also cheered on some Smallholders' dislike of the central bank's eminently solid governor, Gyorgy Suranyi, ostensibly for his alleged shortcomings in investigating losses at the bank's commercial subsidiary in Vienna.
Ethiopia's poor roads left the country's markets so fragmented that in 2001 smallholders in one part of the country were almost ruined by a glut, even as farmers elsewhere were ruined by drought.
Then, in December, the European Court of Justice agreed to review a complaint from three French animal-rights campaigners, backed by the European Commission on Human Rights, who say that the French law letting shooters on to smallholders' land violates property rights and freedom of association because it forces people to become de facto members of the local field-sports association.
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