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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:44:17 +0000
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This is Dick Tinsley, again, responding to Question 3.3.3 regarding the level of interest for food security - individual, household, local, regional...:

The most critical would be local or community level. Traditionally this has been the household, but I think that might have misled the effort. Smallholders usually operate and interact in communities which would be the area and production lands over which the mobile resources like labor or contract tillage migrate. If you will excuse the Christian proverb of "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul", the problem is that you can concentrate your mobile resources such as labor on one farm to demonstrate substantial potential, but if the laborers are actually smallholder farmers you will be denying them the opportunity to work their own land, and what is easily demonstrated may not be extended.

Richard L. Tinsley
Dept. of Soil & Crop Sciences
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
USA
Phone: +1-970-225-6249
Fax: +1-970-491-0564
Email: Richard.Tinsley (at) colostate.edu

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