smallholder
IPA: smˈɔɫhoʊɫdɝ
noun
- A person who owns or runs a smallholding, a minor independent farmer.
- (US, historical) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.
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Examples of "smallholder" in Sentences
- The farmer is Aunt Eliza’s old boy-friend and the smallholder is their son Ransome.
- Malawi is one example of successful investment in smallholder farmers, helping them gain access to seeds and fertilizers.
- Family business operations such as smallholder farms and shops employed about 90 percent of Mozambique’s labour force, the bank said.
- The goal in this research, he said, is to provide food security by increasing economic returns to "smallholder" farming households who depend on rain-fed agriculture.
- If donors will match that successful effort with similar pooled support in areas such as smallholder agriculture, primary education, primary health, family planning and infrastructure, Africa's leaders can do the rest.
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