This is Bazyli Czyżewski again. As Arbab Ghulam Qadir (message 32) said, a uniform definition of farm size cannot be adopted globally. But why don't we use the approach elaborated in Europe to define it, I mean the notion of 'Standard Output' (SO). The SO is the average monetary value of the agricultural output at farm-gate price of each agricultural product (crop or livestock) in a given region. It can differ in each country and regions over the world. According to this notion, small farms in Europe are defined as: 1. The farms would be included in the FADN survey, and they have a SO below or equal to 25,000 euros per year 2. The farms would not be included in the FADN survey, and they have a SO below or equal to 25,000 euros per year. The Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) is an instrument for evaluating the income of agricultural holdings and the impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy. The services responsible in the European Union for the operation of the FADN collect every year accountancy data from a sample of approx. 80,000 agricultural holdings in the European Union covering 90% of agricultural production in member countries (http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/rica/concept_en.cfm). My point of view is not to impose the threshold of 25,000 euros to define small farms but to establish on the basis of the SO own ranges for your countries. There are 600,000 to 800,000 small farms in Poland. The classification based on FADN gives similar results as the definition of "semisubsistence farms", where less than 50% of the agricultural output is sold, with the remainder being consumed within the farm household. Bazyli Czyżewski, PhD. (hab.) Associate professor Department of Education and Personnel Development Investigator in Research Group of Macroeconomics and Agricultural Economics Departmnent Poznań University of Economics Poland https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bazyli_Czyzewski E-mail: b.czyzewski (at) ue.poznan.pl [To contribute to this conference, send your message to [log in to unmask] For further information, see http://www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/news/detail/en/c/434322/ ]. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SMALL-FARMS-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SMALL-FARMS-L&A=1