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This is Arbab Ghulam Qadir, again. 

In response to Dick Tinsley (Message 30) - I have gone through links given by you. Great work on small holders and I, being an agri economist, think mainly from the economic point of view but you being an agronomist have given great detail and I will go through these pages to grab the new knowledge.

In response to moderator John's request - I have given below my opinion on some questions and will appreciate if scholars like Dick Tinsley and others may add from their research experience. However, I have not done any research on following issues, but will like to suggest some measures. There are so many senior and scholars in this e-conference and hopefully, they will add from their rich research working experience.

Question 3.1.1 (about the definitions to classify farms as small): 

A uniform definition of farm size cannot be adopted globally. Rather it should be based on availability of water and access to market. Both have direct impact on farm profitability. For example, in one of the districts a small holder with 1 ha of land has abundant water and easy way to market is financially better off than a farmer of even greater holding in another district that has scarce water resources and no link roads to market. 

Moreover, it should also define limits for irrigated and rain fed areas.

Question 3.3.3: ("Food security can be studied at different levels/scales, such as the individual, household, local, national and global level....Which is the most appropriate level to use when we wish to study the contribution of small farms to food security and nutrition?")

The main focus should be to study food security on household level which can later be summarised as regional and national.

Arbab Ghulam Qadir 
Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator
Management & Development Centre (Development Consultancy Firm),
Hyderabad, 
Sindh, 
Pakistan
Cell: 0092-302-5237326
Off: 0092-22--2653068
Email: gqarbab (at) gmail.com
Wed: www.mdcpk.org 

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