Click to edit Master title style Shenggen Fan, August 2014 Enhancing profitability Transforming smallholder family farms Shenggen Fan Director General | International Food Policy Research Institute Asia Pacific Regional Consultation Chennai, India | August 9, 2014
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IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan presentation on “Enhancing the Profitability of Family Farms” at the Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation on the “Role of Family Farming in the 21st Century: Achieving the Zero Hunger Challenges by 2025 organized by M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation’s in Chennai, India in August 2014
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Shenggen Fan, August 2014
Enhancing profitability
Transforming smallholder family
farms
Shenggen FanDirector General | International Food Policy Research Institute
Asia Pacific Regional Consultation
Chennai, India | August 9, 2014
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Shenggen Fan, August 2014
Key messages
Most smallholders farmers are family-based
Smallholders have a big role to play in achieving
global food security and nutrition
Not all smallholders are the same and they face
an emerging set of challenges and opportunities
Strategies should be tailored to different types of
smallholders and country’s level of transformation
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Global hunger and undernutrition persist
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5
10
15
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25
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WORLD Africa E Asia S Asia
1990-92
2011-13
Source: Data from FAO 2013, HarvestPlus 2011
Prevalence of undernourishment %
Smallholders make up 50% of world’s undernourished
people, and live off 2 ha of cropland or less
Prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies
Source: Data from FAO 2013
+2 billion people are micronutrient
deficient
Source: UN 2005
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Most smallholder farms are
family-based
Of the world’s 570 million farms
• 88% are family farms
• 84% are smallholder farms
Smallholder farms provide
• Livelihoods for 2.5 billion people
• More than 80% of food consumed
in Asia and Africa south of Sahara
Smallholder family farms are critical in achieving food security and nutrition
Source: FAO 2014
Note: Most recent data on holdings used; Data for Algeria in 2001, Burkina Faso in 1993, Egypt in
2000, Iran in 2003; Ivory Coast in 2001; Morocco in 1996; Yemen in 2002
Share of farm size less than 2 ha (%)
Source: IFAD 2013; FAO 2014
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Is small still beautiful?
Old wisdom: small is beautiful → efficiency benefits
As agriculture and food systems transform, optimal farm
size varies
Small is still beautiful: weak nonfarm growth and
increasing rural population
Bigger is better: booming nonfarm sectors and
increasing urban population
However, many countries artificially control farm size
Optimal farm size is dynamic concept that reflects
different types of smallholders and economies
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Differences exist on
Potential to commercialize
• Soft constraints
— E.g. access to info and financial capital
• Hard constraints
― E.g. high population density and low quality soil
Stage of economic transformation
• Level of productivity in and outside of agriculture
• Economic diversification and growth
Not all smallholders are the same
Source: Fan et al. 2013
Agriculture-based
Transforming Transformed
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Food price volatility
Rising agricultural-related risks to health
Climate change and higher frequency /
intensity of extreme weather events
Land and water constraints
Limited access to finance and capital
Emerging challenges facing smallholders
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Improves long run agric. growth, reduces poverty
Short run/ volatile
Hurts net sellers and buyers of smallholders
Long run/ secular
Price increase
Food price increases and volatility
Access to inputs
Infrastructure
Markets and services
Capacity to convert high food prices
to high income
Price volatility can have harmful effects on the poor, but long run
impacts of higher food prices can increase smallholder income and
stimulate poverty reduction
Food price increases can be positive or negative…
Source: Headey 2014, Christiaensen et al. 2011
Capacity
…but smallholders require support for long-run gains
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Rising agriculture-related risks to health
Picture Source: ILRI 2013
Human health
increasingly
affected by intense
food production
Affects smallholders’ ability
to undertake more
productive and innovative
activities
Food safety risks
• Unregulated food production
• Increasing proximity of industrial
and agricultural activities
• E.g. milk and rice contamination
Animal-borne diseases
Source: ILRI 2012
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Limited access to financial options for savings and loans
Incompatibility of microcredit with
• Risks that affect whole communities
• Seasonality of smallholder production and income cycles
• Smallholders’ long-term needs for more productive capital investments
Uncertain impact of resource-seeking FDI on smallholders
Limited access to finance and capital
Source: Motes 2011
Agricultural investment needs, investment flows, and the remaining gap
in developing countries (excl. infrastructure), 2008