Hungry for Land and Tools

80% of farmers around the world have access to nothing but hand tools to cultivate soil while the remaining 20% use draught animals. Less than 2% have a tractor.

We often hear that it is small farmers who produce most of the world’s food these days. But how many of us realize that these farmers utilize less than a quarter of the world’s farmland and even this meagre share is shrinking fast? If small farmers continue to lose the very basis of their existence, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.

Grain took an in-depth look at the data to see what is going on and the message is crystal clear: We need to urgently put land back in the hands of small farmers and make the struggle for agrarian reform central to the fight for better food systems.

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