This is Rachid Serraj. I am a Senior Agricultural Research Officer at the CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) Secretariat in Rome. Responding to Mark Redman (Message 48): I am afraid I can't speak on behalf of the CGIAR regarding smallholder typologies, but I know that several CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) have done work on that; e.g. Humidtropics (Alvarez et al, 2014) or the International Food Policy Research Institute (Fan et al, 2013). You may also find it useful to check the recent ISPC study on farm size and urbanization - Masters (2013). Rachid Serraj Senior Agricultural Research Officer CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC) Secretariat FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy +39 06 570 52251 http://ispc.cgiar.org E-mail: Rachid.Serraj (at) fao.org References: - Alvarez, S., Paas, W., Descheemaeker, K., Tittonell, P., Groot, J.C.J., 2014. Constructing typologies, a way to deal with farm diversity: general guidelines for the Humidtropics. Report for the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics. Plant Sciences Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. http://humidtropics.cgiar.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2015/04/Typology-guidelines_v2.pdf (2.8 MB) Fan, S., J. Brzeska, M. Keyzer and A. Halsema. 2013. From Subsistence to Profit: Transforming Smallholder Farms. IFPRI Food Policy Report. http://www.ifpri.org/publication/subsistence-profit-transforming-smallholder-farms Master, W.A. 2013. Urbanization and Farm Size in Developing Countries: Implications for Agricultural Research. Synthesis of a Foresight Study of the Independent Science and Partnership Council. www.ispc.cgiar.org/sites/default/files/ISPC_StrategyTrends_FarmSize_Synthesis.pdf (800 KB) [To contribute to this conference, send your message to [log in to unmask] - up to and including 23 October ]. ######################################################################## 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