A report says the peasant food web, which it defines as small-scale food producers, including peasant and small family farmers, pastoralists, hunters, fisher folk, and urban food growers, feed 70 percent of the world. |  Canadian Foodgrains Bank/Shaylyn McMahon photo

Food policies must help small farmers

Ten years ago, a spike in food prices ignited a global food crisis that compromised the ability of the world’s poorest people to access an adequate diet. Governments around the world responded by supporting the expansion of large-scale agricultural production, based on the idea that producing more food in this way translates into lower prices […] Read more