Colin Poulton

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the difficulties that smallholders face accessing services and showed how incentives for commercial delivery of services to smallholders differ between staple food, traditional cash crop, and high value product supply chains.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors set out an agenda for investment and policy reform in this area, providing a brief theoretical examination of the co-ordination problems involved before examining in turn demand and supply constraints affecting smallholder farmers, and policies for price stabilisation and the coordination of support services.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the debates on the contemporary role of agriculture in development and the case for small farms in light of the rise of supermarkets, lower commodity prices and liberalized trade, agricultural research funding, environmental change, HIV/AIDS, and changing policy ideas.

TL;DR: Five interwoven guiding principles are proposed for a post 2015 development project: holism, equity, sustainability, ownership, and global obligation, and their possible implications in application are explored.

TL;DR: Hazell et al. as mentioned in this paper reviewed both sides of the debate over the future of small farms before coming to their conclusions and came down firmly on the side of policy support for small farms, pointing to small farms' significant potential for reducing poverty and inequity.