Across the United States, small farms are vanishing at an alarming rate. Between 2017 and 2022, the number of farms declined by about 140,000, a 7% drop, according to the USDA’s 2022 Census of ...

Food scarcity in developing countries is heightened by a worrying trend – limited funding options for small-scale farming operations on the front lines of climate change. A new report published ...

Brooks Lamb is a writer, and the land protection and access specialist at American Farmland Trust. He grew up on a small farm in Marshall County, Tennessee, and lives in Memphis now. His recent book, ...

Tickets for the workshop, sponsored by Red Acre Center — a Utah-based nonprofit that supports small farms and local food — ...

Root Capital is a nonprofit that works directly with agricultural enterprises in Africa and Latin America to invest in climate action for small-scale farmers. “We’re seeing that these communities are ...

The Ulangizi app’s success in Malawi — where small-scale agriculture provides livelihood to more than 80% of the country’s 21 million people — may pave the way for its introduction ...

The small-scale agriculture that Vetter wanted to preserve with her bequest is of little interest to the large funders of commercial research.

To Clarke this shouldn’t be an either-or debate because size and type of farms is another place where diversity helps. “There’s a place for large-scale and small-scale agriculture.

I’ve worked on everything from small family plots to massive commercial farms, and each has its own challenges and rewards. Here’s what I’ve experienced, what surprised me, and how scale changes ...