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I am Sarah Edewor, a Nigerian and a Doctoral student from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.
During the course of my research, both as a student and on the various projects that I have been opportune to be a part of, it has been determined that farmers are smallholder farmers when they cultivate less than 2 hectares of land. Despite these small farm sizes, a large portion of them still happen to be the ones responsible for contributing immensely to the food security in the country.
I would like to contribute to question 3.3.4 which states that "many small farmers participate in the rural non-farm economy to generate additional income. Does this increase the contribution of small farms to food security and nutrition?"
I will say yes to this question. This will arise as a result of the fact that most farmers tend to diversify into non-farm activities so as to boost their incomes. Additional income from the non-farm activities they are involved in also has the capacity of increasing farmer's access to a wide range of goods and services that were previously outside their budget.
Also, the proceeds from these non-farm activities are often times introduced back into their farms which in turn have a way of increasing their scale of production and boosting their productivity.
Sarah Edewor
Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management
Federal University of Agriculture
Abeokuta,
Ogun State,
Nigeria
E-mail: saradowe (at) yahoo.co.uk
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