Many women serve as heads of households and smallholder farmers.
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First, the U.S. needs to increase support for smallholder farmers.
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AgroCenta has developed digital logistics solutions for smallholder farmers in Ghana.
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Smallholder farmers have also adopted drought-tolerant seeds and started keeping livestock.
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"What we are hoping to achieve over time is to increase the volume of coffee coming initially from the smallholder farmers we are working with and also to encourage other smallholder farmers to join the programme," Weston told Reuters.
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"What we are hoping to achieve over time is to increase the volume of coffee coming initially from the smallholder farmers we are working with and also to encourage other smallholder farmers to join the program," Weston told Reuters.
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Working only with smallholder farms in Africa, its crops are exclusively rain-fed.
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Most are from smallholder farming families with less than one acre of land.
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Pula is harnessing technology to make the economics of serving smallholder farmers viable.
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The coal industry's consumption and pollution of water resources devastates communities and smallholder agriculture.
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Support to smallholder farmers was also important so that they could benefit from changing technology.
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And while smallholder agriculture is hugely labour-intensive, that makes sense when labour is abundant.
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In the 213s and 1960s, the Green Revolution brought smallholder farming into the modern age.
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This has led to greater conflicts pitting smallholder farmers and villagers against governments and industry.
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The area surrounding Mount Lico is a patchwork of smallholder farms, tea and eucalyptus plantations, and woodlands.
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Right now, he says he's working on herbicide-tolerant varieties of cassava for smallholder farmers in Africa.
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How have things changed since then, and how might they apply to both smallholder and industrial farming?
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More than one smallholder has been murdered and hundreds have had their livestock stolen and their crops trampled.
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Many of these smallholder family farmers are poor and food insecure, with limited access to markets and services.
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Livestock farming sustains many smallholder farmers here, while a few grow drought-tolerant crops like sorghum and millet.
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Olu Ajayi, project leader at the CTA, said it hopes to help smallholder farmers increase their yields during droughts.
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Critics say the rule will allow large farmers to claim swathes of land occupied by smallholder farmers like Conceicao.
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In the case of Bosire, in Kenya, her idea came from growing up as the daughter of smallholder farmers.
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Second—and equally pragmatic—improving the ability of smallholder farmers to move beyond subsistence farming helps elevate whole communities.
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The fields are tended by some 30 million smallholder farmers who depend on maize for food and income, Hruska said.
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MICRO-CLIMATE In hilly areas, the National Environment Management Authority encourages smallholder farmers to practice contour plowing and terrace farming.
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The reason is that insurance companies' business models are not set up to serve the unique needs of smallholder farmers.
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By connecting smallholder farmers to global markets, the exchange, launched with a fanfare in 2008, was supposed to help reduce hunger.
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Globally, there are about 460 to 500 million smallholder farmers, with limited resources in terms of labor, education, training and finance.
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"A simple shed can cost 10,000 shillings ($100) to set up, but smallholder farmers often don't have that capital," he said.
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The initiative has helped nearly 7 million smallholder farmers and producers to improve their crop yields since being launched in 2009.
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"It is a great way to transform the lives of thousands of smallholder farmers just by making consumers aware," he says.
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Many of the world's 460-500 million smallholder farmers have limited resources in terms of labor, education, training and finance, experts say.
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Mixing crops and encouraging natural predators may be more effective, from the experience of smallholder farmers in the Americas, said FAO's Hruska.
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"This is critical for expanding smallholder irrigation," said Schreiner, who is executive director of the South Africa-based advocacy group Pegasys Institute.
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"It's about improving access of smallholder farmers to knowledge, technology and capital," said Ben Warren, head of strategy and finance at Proximity.
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Helping its smallholder farmers requires a deep understanding of context, as well as empathy and creativity, Warren told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Smallholder farmers need tools and services that enable them to earn higher profits, grow more nutritious food, and improve their soil's health.
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She saw firsthand that because they lacked capital to invest in equipment or fertilizer, smallholder farmers couldn't make their land more productive.
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"To unleash the business spirit in smallholder women and men (farmers) is critical," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
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But for the last year, the 50-year-old smallholder farmer has seriously considered migrating north with the help of a coyote.
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Certification schemes are unreliable in an industry dominated by thousands of smallholder farmers, often in countries with uneven governmental regulation or infrastructure.
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The study, published on Friday in Scientific Reports, covers nearly 2,000 smallholder farms in 12 countries in West and East Africa and Asia.
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Smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia are already affected by rising temperatures, changes in rain patterns, frequency of droughts, and rising sea levels.
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Massandjé Touré-Litsé, director-general of the council, is pushing for a sustainable cocoa industry that can increase the productivity of smallholder farmers.
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The Ministry of Agriculture said local communities were benefiting from the project, with 4,700 hectares of the plantation currently held by smallholder contract farmers.
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The area is a major producer of cocoa, rubber and palm oil grown by smallholder farmers – Ghanaian cocoa is used by chocolate-makers worldwide.
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FoodHubs: Uses mobile solar-powered cold carts and cold rooms to help smallholder farmers store their produce, so as to avoid post-harvest losses.
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The confectioner recently helped Pakistani smallholder farmers cut water use by a third over three years, while increasing their income by a similar amount.
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Smallholder farmers, many of whom are women, manage to grow 80 percent of the food eaten in all of Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
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Thrive Agric: The company helps smallholder farmers in Nigeria access crowdfunded loans to help grow their crops, as well as help them sell their produce.
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With the round, the startup will look to possibilities to update its platform to offer farming advice to smallholder farmers, in addition to insurance coverage.
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It painted a future of which many agronomists on the continent dream: productive and commercially astute smallholder farmers and large plantations exporting to the world.
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With a client base of over 85033,000 smallholder farmers who earn $137 more than their neighbors, this translates into over $40 million of social good.
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The World Cocoa Foundation says cocoa produced by over 5 million smallholder farmers around the world supports the livelihoods of more than 50 million people.
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Worldwide, an estimated 13 million people are involved in tea production, with the majority of planters being smallholder farmers, according to sustainable development agency Solidaridad.
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Many of sub-Saharan Africa's smallholder farmers - one of the groups hardest hit by more frequent and worsening drought linked to climate change - are women.
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Invoke runs its campaign through the 'Planters United' platform, which describes itself as a non-governmental organization made up of smallholder farmers, according to a Feb.
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Invoke runs its campaign through the 'Planters United' platform, which describes itself as a non-governmental organisation made up of smallholder farmers, according to a Feb.
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Olam has mapped the location of each of its smallholder cocoa suppliers, using smartphones, which enables it to share information on market prices and farming techniques.
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"Throughout the tropics you have selective logging, or smallholder farmers removing individual trees for fuel wood," Wayne Walker, another of the authors, said in a statement.
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One example is my organization, One Acre Fund, a nonprofit social enterprise that offers smallholder farmers loans in the form of high-quality seeds and fertilizer.
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The mother of five maintains her two-field smallholder farm in Mwenezi district while struggling with night sweats, severe headaches and weakness because of her HIV.
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Land is critical for smallholder farmers and indigenous people globally but the majority in developing nations lack secure rights despite living or working there for generations.
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Four countries in Africa—Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon—produce three-quarters of the world's cocoa supply, the vast majority of that from smallholder farmers.
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It explores how to help three groups in that category: families living in urban slums, smallholder farmers in rural areas, and people uprooted by conflicts and disasters.
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Smallholder farmers in Africa could let wild plants grow on part of their land, people in cities could plant flowers in their back gardens or window boxes.
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Sugar is one of the few sectors in which China struggles to compete with foreign rivals because smallholder farmers have to employ more labor, driving up costs.
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Sugar is one of the few sectors in which China struggles to compete with foreign rivals because smallholder farmers have to employ more labour, driving up costs.
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Cocoa production is a key source of income for many smallholder farmers in Ivory Coast, who plant on average 22015 to 25 hectares (250 to 20203 acres).
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The nonprofit, which recently completed Y Combinator's accelerator program, uses geospatial analysis to make the process more efficient, enabling it to offer free verification to smallholder farms.
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The program, announced late on Tuesday, will finance sustainable farming, as well as food processing and trade companies that protect forest, restore land and involve smallholder farmers.
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"Around the world it's a potential problem that farmers are growing older, particularly smallholder farmers in low-income countries," said Mark Gorman, a senior policy adviser at HelpAge.
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Another model might be the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa in Malawi, which was set up privately in 2006 at the request of an association of smallholder farmers.
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Changing farming ways does not happen overnight, explained Peter Kaupa, a field officer with the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM) who works with the Nyanja group.
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Business models focused on smallholder farmer inclusion and collaboration can open new markets to subsistence farmers and provide a dependable source of high-quality crops for food companies.
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Kenyan startup Illuminium Greenhouses was crowned the winner for its use of digitally controlled solar greenhouses and SMS activated irrigation systems to boost the prospects for smallholder farmers.
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"While palm oil will remain our mainstay, this is an exciting diversification that will bring us and our smallholder partners added revenue and opportunities for growth," Fadzilah said.
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In fact, RSPO is funding smallholder projects in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire and Tanzania to bring them into "the sustainable palm oil supply chain," he says.
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Half of the world's 795 million hungry people are farmers, according to the WFP, and in some African countries up to 90 percent of the population are smallholder farmers.
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In a statement, Philip Morris said it welcomed the report "which sheds light on children exposed to hazardous work in tobacco-growing, mainly on smallholder family farms in Indonesia."
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Using traditional log hives or modern top-bar hives, which allow farmers to harvest honey without damaging the colony, the project helps set up beehive fences around smallholder farms.
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The center in 2017 launched a 1.5 million-euro ($1.7-million) regional project to help more than 150,000 smallholder farmers in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe cope with climate change.
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The total cost of responding to the drought cost Malawi, where more than 80 percent of the population are smallholder farmers, an estimated $395 million, according to the report.
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We've helped female smallholder farmers in Kenya obtain fertilizer and equipment to improve their yields, sometimes earning enough money to send their children to school for the first time.
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More than 50,000 smallholder farmers across five districts in Malawi will be shown how to access real-time climate information, obtain weather-based insurance, and use drought-tolerant crop varieties.
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Smallholder farmers are those earning all or nearly all of their income from agriculture, farming on 13-20 acres of land and earning around $500 to $5,000, according to Sheehan.
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But in some countries it was hard to trace if their raw materials came from legal, commercial mines or from illegal smallholder mines where forced and child labor are rife.
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Smallholder farmers benefit not only from the protection from elephants afforded their crops, but also from the added pollination services the bees provide as well as from harvesting the abundant honey.
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"The Islamic Development Bank has been a good partner for us," said Gates, who hopes to raise $500 million for primary health care, disease control, smallholder agriculture and basic rural infrastructure.
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The project will also enable smallholder farmer cooperatives to sell their grain collectively, and build strong links with grain traders, incentivizing them to grow a larger amount of better-quality crops.
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Environmentalists say millions of hectares of forests have been cleared to make way for plantations, often by smallholder farmers using slash-and-burn methods that blanket the region in haze every year.
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Many of Malawi's smallholder farmers who grow maize as a cash crop have diversified into legumes like soya and groundnuts, hoping for better market prices should one crop fail due to drought.
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Among the ideas Opp's team is already developing is AgriUp, a low bandwidth application for smallholder farmers in Guatemala, which provides location-specific information including farming tips, market prices and weather forecasts.
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The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a recent report that blockchain had huge potential to address challenges smallholder farmers faced by "reducing uncertainty and enabling trust among market players".
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A similar program for Africa would aid farmers' transition to different types of agricultural products, decreasing nations' dependence on tobacco exports and increasing the world's food supply with incentives for smallholder farmers.
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This earned-revenue model enables donors to achieve a higher "return" on their investment – greater incomes mean smallholder farmers and their families are better nourished and their children attend school more often.
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And unlike many technological innovations in agriculture which come with costly intellectual property rights, researchers say smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia would have royalty-free access to these breakthroughs.
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"We can feed our people, we can feed even the whole world through agroecology," said Mpofu, who is general coordinator of La Via Campesina, a movement representing more than 200 million smallholder farmers.
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Millions of smallholder farmers and their families in Africa and other parts of the developing world are going to lose their livelihoods due to the coming (welcome) fall in global demand for tobacco.
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Instead, what I mostly found were courageous, hard-working families from across Brazil who had come to the rugged town of sawmills, cattle ranches and smallholder settlements to improve their lot in life.
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As is often the case, WeFarm was originally developed as a project by the Cafedirect Producers' Foundation (CPF), a nonprofit that works with smallholder farmers around the world, then spun out as a startup.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Armed with smartphones, thousands of smallholder farmers across Latin America are set to benefit from a technology boost that will help them deal better with the effects of climate change.
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We are testing a model now to empower Africa's smallholder farmers through a philanthropic loan fund that provides reasonably-priced loans, Israeli agritech and training, and access to new markets to sell their goods.
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"There is a lot of room to significantly increase the productivity of oil palm cultivation, especially at smallholder level, for instance through the introduction of higher yielding varieties and improved management practices," he said.
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The Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), which owned 70% of the country's milling capacity at its peak as well as providing its smallholder members with loans and cheap fertiliser, went bust in 2009.
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"It's time for smallholder farmers to stop looking at the sky and praying for rain," said Andy Jarvis, a research director at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), which is part of CGIAR.
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If all of today's public climate adaptation finance were to be divided among the world's 1.5 billion smallholder farmers in developing countries, they would get around $3 each a year to cope with climate change.
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Session 1: 9:35am – 10:40am Apollo Agriculture: Leverages advances in machine learning, remote imaging via satellite, and mobile money to deliver input finance and agronomic advice to smallholder farmers with radical efficiency and scalability.
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As sensors become cheaper and internet connectivity spreads, smallholder peasants in many parts of Africa will be able to gather data on soil and weather conditions and get tailored farming advice from intelligent computer systems.
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Maristela Lopes da Silva, an activist with the Rural Workers Union in Boca do Acre, a Brazilian advocacy group which supports smallholder farmers during land conflicts, said violence is rising because of inequality and impunity.
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UNEP announced a partnership with French bank BNP Paribas last week to channel $10 billion in funding to smallholder farmers in developing countries by 2025 to help boost their incomes and protect forests and land.
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Smallholder farmers produce more than 70 percent of the world's food and to make sure there are enough of them to feed the growing global population, farming needs a makeover to attract young people, experts say.
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched a 50 million euros ($56 million) fund last week, targeting small and medium-sized agribusinesses and smallholder farmers in developing countries who are too big to access microcredit.
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In an attempt to capture the struggles and beauty of life in smallholder farming communities like this, photographer Kenneth O'Halloran visited farmlands in Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, Burkina Faso and Togo, over the last couple of years.
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"Lack of resources and access to technical know-how are major hurdles in our way to our adapting to the rapidly shifting weather patterns," said 65-year-old smallholder wheat farmer Safeer Ahmed, from Gujar Khan.
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And the average Colombian, whether urban-dweller or rural smallholder, is less concerned with rarefied matters like biodiversity and its possible role in a speculative biotechnological future, than with the immediate business of making ends meet.
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Most promising is that biotechnology, including genetic engineering (GE), has great potential to help smallholder farmers in developing countries produce more food per hectare, even in areas where drought, pests and floods have been continual challenges.
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"The existing solutions work well for large estates and it can also be effective for farmers organized into cooperatives, but many of the world's coffee farmers are smallholder farmers and not organized into cooperatives," Browning explains.
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The interactions between these two peoples is now mostly harmonious, but when the Soviet regime forced previously nomadic or smallholder Kazakhs into large collective farms in the early 1930s, the countryside was thrown into complete chaos.
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"If people are preoccupied with issues such as security, then they'd better take a closer look at what's going to happen if a significant share of those 500 million smallholder farmers loses their livelihoods," he warned.
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"Mega mergers are extremely worrying for us food producers," said Ramona Duminicioiu, a small farmer and seed producer in Romania, and a coordinator of La Via Campesina, a movement representing more than 200 million smallholder farmers.
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"In order for export cuts to have any impact on global prices the cut has to be at least 1 million tonnes," Saksarit Sriprasart, a leader of smallholder rubber farmers in Thailand's southern Trang province, told Reuters.
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Asia's millions of smallholder farmers - many with less than an acre of land - are likely to take a bigger hit from the pest than larger growers given their reluctance to adopt new technologies to combat production threats.
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While most of the cases have been discovered on smallholder farms, the infected farm in Chuzhou was relatively big, underscoring the risk to some of the huge, modern farms that have opened in China in recent years.
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LONDON, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zambia's smallholder farmers could be made squatters on their own land as the country opens up to farming multinationals in an effort to boost its economy, said a United Nations expert.
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But he said he feared that if local authorities could not reduce conflicts, large farm operators in the region will form "armed militias" - as they have in other rural areas - to drive smallholder farmers from the land.
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"If we could have enough seeds to deal with individual smallholder farmers and supply them on time, the results would have been twice what is obtained now," said Peter Epie Ngalle, SOWEDA's director of monitoring and evaluation.
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FGV's shareholders, many of them small landowners, form a key vote bank for Najib's ruling alliance in battleground states and some smallholder groups have expressed concerns about the management battle and called for the chairman to step down.
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A new Elephants and Bees Project, the brainchild of biologist Lucy King, aims to support smallholder farmers with income from honey sales and reduce human-elephant conflicts by putting the belligerent nature of African honeybees to good use.
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He also pledged to offer soft loans to smallholder farmers as well as continue to make the price of fertilizer and seed cheap, signaling a continuation of subsidies that boosted food production during most of his first term.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cash handouts are the best way to support smallholder farmers struggling due to drought, but for farmers experiencing wetter weather, agricultural inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides help most, a new study has found.
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has initiated a groundbreaking conversation to explore how the rapidly emerging, broad-based field of agricultural biotechnology can complement agro-ecological approaches to sustainably increase productivity, especially for smallholder farmers.
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As part of the FoodTrade East and Southern Africa program, funded by the British government, a £233 million ($2246 million) grant was announced in April to enable 2000,2100 smallholder farmers in Tanzania and Uganda to access regional export markets.
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Details of the new smallholder standards are still being discussed, Rumondang said, but among requirements that will be changed are those related to labor, since farmers managing only a few hectares of land generally get help from family members.
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While agriculture in Africa employs 65 percent of its labor force (nearly 50 percent women), 80 percent are smallholder farmers―largely single families on small plots of land, according to World Bank and UN Food and Agriculture Organization statistics.
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Many of the estimated 200 million smallholder farmers who are producing food within the world's supply chains are also living in poverty, so the role of businesses operating in these industries is critical in order to drive systemic change.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies have hailed the passage of a U.S. bill that aims to eliminate hunger and poverty around the world by helping smallholder farmers, especially women, with investments targeted at increasing productivity and improving nutrition.
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The World Food Programme, meanwhile, promised to purchase at least $120 million each year in agricultural products from smallholder farmers through a partnership called the Patient Procurement Platform, which will expand into Kenya and three other countries next year.
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There is also a need to foster economic, environmental and social improvements through assistance to smallholder farmers and create the civil infrastructure to both reduce reliance on fires as part of the clearing process, and to put out fires.
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The majority of Kenya's smallholder farmers lack proper cold storage to preserve the quality or extend the shelf-life of their fruit, leaving them at the mercy of middlemen who buy their produce and earn most of the profit.
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Abroad The One Acre Fund works against international hunger by giving smallholder farmers micro loans for seeds and fertilizer, as well as offering training, crop storage, and market information to redevelop sustainable farming communities in countries including Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania.
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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One in four people are worried about losing their home or land, according to a survey of nine countries, with Nigerians most concerned about homes and smallholder farmers in Tanzania and Indonesia most insecure about land.
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Balasaheb Chouhan, a smallholder in Puntamba, says the paperwork for selling to the state is fiendish, and then typically there are week-long queues of farmers waiting to unload their goods, followed by weeks more of waiting to be paid.
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Smallholder farmers managing between one to 10 hectares of land provide up to 80 percent of the food supply in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa but many are also extremely poor, according to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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"Smallholder farmers along river banks have for a long time managed to feed themselves and their families adequately without causing any harm to nature," said Lucas Mnubi, an environmental expert and the editor of Nature magazine in Dar es Salaam.
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"That's what WorldCover wants to go after…These are the kind of micro-systemic risks we think we can model and then create a micro product for a smallholder farmer that they can understand and will give them protection," he said.
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Construction of the $569 million plant, which was to produce ethanol from locally grown sugar and generate enough power for 100,000 rural households, would also have forced the eviction of thousands of smallholder farmers who work lands surrounding the park.
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But it has also leased to foreign investors large tracts of land in Oromia that have traditionally been used by smallholder farmers for growing crops, grazing livestock and collecting firewood—and brutally suppressed the protests that erupted as a result.
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The other startups pitching, chosen from literally hundreds of entries, were: Apollo Agriculture: Leverages advances in machine learning, remote imaging via satellite and mobile money to deliver input finance and agronomic advice to smallholder farmers with radical efficiency and scalability.
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In Laikipia, north of Nairobi, herders from the Samburu and Pokot tribes tend to back the opposition, while smallholder farmers from the Turkana and Kikuyu ethnic groups usually support President Uhuru Kenyatta's Jubilee party, said Martin Evans, head of the Laikipia Farmers' Association.
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"While large-scale agri-business activities are a source of much-needed revenue for many countries in Africa, too often poor smallholder farmers, including women, hardly see any fruit," David Barissa, campaign manager for the charity Oxfam in Africa, said in an interview.
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From advancements in areas such as CRISPR, new developments in digital technology and data analytics that are transforming agriculture, better understanding of our microbiome, new mobile tools for smallholder farmers such as mobile financial services, SMS-delivered weather, and market price information.
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Pierre Thiam began exporting fonio to New York last year, hoping to help smallholder communities in the Sahel, which stretches from Mauritania and Mali in the west to Sudan and Eritrea in the east and is home to more than 100 million people.
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If the U.S. fails to keep pace with these countries' funding programs, the losers will be farmers coping with climate change, smallholder farmers in the U.S. and developing world, and those in need of cures and treatments for animal, plant and human disease.
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Thanks to the partnerships it has formed, the research and development it has supported and the initiatives on the ground it has launched, smallholder farmers have obtained access to better seeds, sustainable agricultural techniques and financing, while thousands of agri-businesses have been created and expanded.
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"Our offer to smallholder farmers is creating supply chains that are more efficient and effective at increasing transparency, and having his expertise and experience with supply-chain logistics, combined with the ability to lead, would be very insightful for the team," said Zeluis Teixeira, co-founder.
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Since 22016, smallholder farmers in nine African countries have been getting help to trade staple foods across borders and store their crops better under a five-year program managed by Development Alternatives, Inc (DAI), a U.S.-based company that works with the private sector to overcome barriers to development.
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"Focusing on young smallholder poor farmers and imparting to them new knowledge about coping with climate change impacts" – as well as helping with subsidized technology and small loans - is "critical for achieving household food security and poverty alleviation," said Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan, Pakistan's minister for national food security.
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Putting farmers in touch with buyers is a good way to ensure they benefit from a ready market, while being contractually obliged to deliver produce of high quality, said Ann Mbaabu, director for market access at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, which supports smallholder farmers.
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The Smart Villages Initiative, which has brought together scientists from Cambridge and Oxford Universities to get minigrids adopted more widely in poor countries, found that once smallholder farmers have electricity, they quickly adopt a range of other technologies such as irrigation pumps and smartphones to get long-term weather forecasts.
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In an email to TechCrunch, Oduwole said there are currently 18 currencies on the platform and the ability to settle in 120 countries, including China and the U.S. Thrive Agric (Nigeria): The company helps smallholder farmers in Nigeria access crowdfunded loans to help grow their crops, as well as help them sell their produce.
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Coffee once ruled these fields, but as its price has grown unstable, smallholder farmers like Dávila and González, 52 and 65, respectively, have had to turn to alternative crops, among them this strange arrival that yields knobby rhizomes of shocking orange flesh, rarely eaten unadulterated; instead, the underground stems are dried and pulverized into a musky powder with a throb of bitterness, which is most widely recognized worldwide as the earthy base note and color in many Indian dishes.
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"For the kind of agriculture that smallholders tend to engage in, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of Latin America, there are a lot of barriers to the adoption of new technologies," said Kyle Murphy, a policy and agricultural development analyst at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at M.I.T. He added that robots like the TerraSentia may be more likely to help smallholder farmers indirectly, by promoting the development of better or more suitable crops.
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