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Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:52:36 +0000
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I am Stefano Grando, a researcher in rural sociology and food studies and a member of the team of the University of Pisa involved in the SALSA project.

First, I want to thank all the contributors who gave very valuable comments and suggestions and engaged in deep debates on several important points which greatly enrich our work adding different regional, professional and scientific perspectives.

Following on comments by Teresa Pinto-Correia (Messages 40 and 41), I would just like to add a few indications on how the debate could be integrated in these last days.

We noticed that the comments focused on some of the Background Document questions, whereas others have not been addressed yet, or only to a limited extent. This is perfectly fine. However, since we are in the final phase of the e-mail conference, I would also encourage contributions with regard to Q. 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 (food systems perspective), 3.3.5 (small farmers' role to address the triple burden of malnutrition) and 3.3.7 (small farmers' expected contribution to food and nutrition security in the future) and also about the 2 questions focusing on sustainability issues (Q 3.4.1-3.4.2).

Second, many comments comes from/are focused on the situation of small farmers in developing countries. This is great, as the majority of SALSA teams may have a European-biased perspective. Yet, comments related to the European context would be more than welcome.

Similarly, most comments dealt with small farmers as vulnerable groups. This is very interesting in itself. However, I was wondering whether some further contributions (see Q. 3.3.1) could comment on other vulnerable groups whose food and nutrition security could be improved thanks to small farming.

Finally, a note related to specific comments. Two usually uncontested observations are interestingly presented as factoids in comments 17 (by Dominic Glover) and 36 (by Siera Vercillo): related to the amount of food produced by small farmers and women's role in agriculture and food security. Is any participant willing to give his/her opinion on this and/or add or suggest other data/sources?

That's all. Thanks again to everybody for this very rich debate, that is hopefully of interest for all the participants beyond SALSA's work.

Stefano Grando
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment University of Pisa, 
Italy
E-mail: stefano.grando (at) for.unipi.it

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