The price of a smallholding of several hectares is only the minimal sum needed to have it marked out and registered.

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The average smallholding of just over half an acre (0.25 hectares) is too small to feed a family hence the continent's widespread stunting.

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At Exeter Crown Court, Leon Smith, 62, from Okehampton, admitted failing to provide a suitable environment for 13 dogs on his Dartmoor smallholding.

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The couple, who moved into a horsebox on the smallholding in 2009, have greenhouses, chickens, sheep and pigs and aim to live as self-sufficiently as they can.

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The lively restaurant buys its goat's cheese from a couple in their 80s, Maria and Vincente Cordona, who produce salty, smooth roundels of cheese, as soft and plump as a freshly iced wedding cake, from their smallholding a few miles inland.

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