The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) posted a link on its Twitter feed yesterday to a document entitled “Smallholders Can Feed the World.”
Upon closer inspection, it turns out that the document really is mostly a marketing brochure for IFAD’s activities, but the document is not completely devoid of interest. Indeed, it discusses how smallholders can actually feed the world when they are integrated in agricultural value chains. It gives the example of Ahmad Abdelmunem Al-Far, an Egyptian who