They’ve been hailed as the ‘resilient unsung heroes’ of the Covid-19 pandemic: the half a billion small-scale farmers worldwide who produce so much of the food we depend on. According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), more than two billion people depend on small farming operations for their livelihoods, and around 70 percent of the world’s rural poor rely on farming for income and employment.
Recent research suggests that because of...