Smallholder farmers are pivotal to transforming global food systems, experts tell UN Summit (Alliance for Science)

Alliance for Science published an article on proposals to end world hunger that will emerge from today’s historic United Nations Food Systems Summit that will only succeed if smallholder farmers are made the central pivot. Dr. Jemimah Njuki, Head, Africa Region, observed that the hungriest people in the world are smallholder farmers in rural areas. She called for a change. “Our food systems are hinged on smallholder farmers that without them at the center, we really don’t have functional food systems,” she said. “Policies must have a very smallholder-centric view… Innovations like climate-smart agriculture must reach and work for smallholder farmers… They must be accompanied by other policies including extension services and markets for smallholder farmers.” (Reach 26K) Also published in Agroportal (Cornell University