Agricultural research can ensure that a smallholder,the fisher person, the pastoralists,the forest dweller and the herder are provided with the means to adapt to climate change.

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Nwanze says with more support, smallholder farmers can increase their productivity to produce a food surplus.

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"He helped us a lot, we didn't know anything about oranges, " says Pauline Lueba, a smallholder who today earns a steady income by selling the oranges from her 800 trees to major retail chains across South Africa.

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Timberland partnered with Smallholder Farmers Alliance, a local non-governmental organization (NGO), to meet its commitment of helping plant 5 million trees in a five-year period.

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The demand for smallholder agricultural financing cannot be addressed with a single strategy.

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