December 2020

Categorizing Small-Scale Producers – Part 2: Visualizing Definitions with Consequences

This is part two in a two-part series on categorizing small-scale producers.  In the last post, we looked at the fact that the majority of the literature does not offer a definition o

Vegetable market
December 2020

Categorizing Small-Scale Producers – Part 1: Defining the Problem

The idea of working with small-scale producers, also known as small-scale farmers, is ubiquitous in the development literature, so much so that the term made it into SDG target 2.3: “By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers…” However, an exact defini