Crowdsourced Field Data Shows Importance of Smallholder Farms to Global Food Production

ENN
Nov 22, 2018, 9:59 am123 pts
A new global field size data set collected as part of a crowdsourcing citizen science project by IIASA researchers has shown that the proportion of smallholder farms may be much larger than previously thought, contributing much more to global food production.

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