My name is Mark Redman and I am living and working in Romania. Most of my work is related to various aspects of policy-making for rural development - both at national and European level. My private consulting company is a partner in the SALSA project (the project within which this e-conference has been launched). Many thanks for the rich diversity of experience and perspective shared with the e-conference so far.  

I'd like to briefly return to message #36, in which Siera Vercillo highlighted a number of interesting questions related to "who we are talking about when we say smallholder". More to the point, Siera clearly stated that it "is critical that policy and programs define who it is they want to target" adding that "there are a lot of myths in aggregated, global statistics about who the smallholder is".

This issue of accurately targeting policies, programmes and other relevant interventions (e.g. research funding) in the context of the huge diversity of small-scale food and farming systems at all levels (from local to global) is very important and to my mind implies the need to work with structured "typologies of small farmers" rather than just "definitions".

I'm already aware of some basic "typologies of small farmers" (e.g. from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)) used / proposed for use in a policy-making context. I'd be very interested to collect more - especially any which are actively in use.

Dr Mark Redman
Free-range Rural Development Enthusiast and Expert
Highclere Consulting S.R.L.
Brasov, 
Romania
E-mail:  redman.consultancy (at) gmail.com
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