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Unseen food: The importance of extra-market small farm's production for rural h...
Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Rivera, María; Guarín, Alejandro; Grivins, Mikelis; Tisenkopfs, Talis; Hernández, Paola A.Small farms are a key part of the system of food flows that happen outside of marketing channels, and which is a crucial source of food for to the most vulnerable part of the world population living in the rural or connected to the rural through family and other social links. Food Self-Provisioning (FSP) is the largest share of these informal flows. For Europe and European small farms today, the role of FSP is ...
Assessing the role of small farms in regional food systems in Europe: Evidence ...
Rivera, Maria; Guarín, Alejandro; Pinto-Correia, Teresa; Almaas, Henrik; Arnalte, Laura; Burns, Vanessa; Czekaj, Marta; Ellis, Rowan; Galli, RowanThe importance of small farms is well established and recognized in developing countries, but far less is known about their role in Europe, where agriculture is largely industrialized. In this paper we use a comparative analysis of evidence from 15 European countries to assess the contribution of small farms to regional food production and availability, across geographies and products. We collected information ...