Smallholder farmers and business

Social enterprise
This study looks at how pioneering companies and organizations have succeeded in enrolling smallholder
farmers in productivity-enhancing schemes, sustainably and at scale – either as buyers of produce or sellers of products, services or equipment.
By Hystra

Productivity-enhancing products and practices can significantly and sustainably increase smallholder farmers’ incomes, as well as improve their livelihoods. Yet, they are not adopted as extensively as they should by the world’s 1.5 billion smallholder farmers. This study looks at how pioneering companies and organizations have succeeded in enrolling smallholder farmers in productivity-enhancing schemes, sustainably and at scale – either as buyers
of produce or sellers of products, services or equipment.