Adding my bits to how the global discourse around food security can influence regional, national and local policies that in turn affects decision-making w.r.t small-farms:
MDG’s steered global energies, strategies, and innovations to combat hunger, addressing food insecurity and malnutrition for all, - the efforts are advancing since then. The global count of undernourished people is around 800 million, although the proportion
of the global population dropped from 15% from 2000/02 to 11 % by 2014/16. The SDG give us another tenure to look into remaining challenges- one being- to sustain focused efforts, especially in Asia and Africa- small farms and subsistence systems- requires
directed investments, governance reforms (spending and assistance) and building capacity of field-based stakeholders.
Sustaining local food production systems and resilient agricultural practices is key to maintaining the agrobiodiversity [ UN reports 4.7 million samples of seeds and another plant genetic material for food and agriculture were preserved in 2016 (2 percent
> 2014), in 602 gene banks in 82 countries and 14 regional and international centers. The focus on agrobiodiversity conservation is creating the good business case for investments, and governance reforms in this space- a reference -
http://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/projekte/biodiva/BooklaunchPoster061113Last-1.pdf