The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security

Introduction.- PART 1: WHY SMALLHOLDERS REMAIN KEY FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY?.- The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World.- Importance of Smallholder Farms as a Relevant Strategy to Increase Food Security.- Rural development strategies and Africa's small farms.- PART 2: HOW TO SUPPORT AND PROVIDE OPORTUNITIES TO SMALLHOLDERS?.- Inorganic Fertiliser use among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for input subsidy policies.- Global change and investments in smallholder irrigation for food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa.- Smallholder farmers' access to inputs and finance in Africa.- Policies for Improved Food Security: The Roles of Land Tenure Policies and Land Markets.- PART 3: REVISITING THE CONTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURE TO NUTRITION SECURITY.- Transforming smallholder agriculture to achieve the SDGs.- Impact of Casual and Permanent Off-Farm Activities on Food Security: The Case of India.- The Superior Role of Agricultural Growth in ReducingChild Stunting: An Instrumental Variables Approach.- Conclusions.

Sergio Gomez y Paloma, PhD, is a senior researcher and scientific officer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission (EC), Seville, Spain. He studied Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Economics (Bs, MSc, and PhD) at the universities of Bologna, Milano and Napoli (Italy), and Agro Paris Tech (France). In 1991-1996 he was a lecturer at Roskilde Universitetscenter Department of Economics and Planning (Denmark), where he was co-director for the European Master ESST (Society, Science and Technology). He has been an advisor to the EU Economic and Social Committee, Brussels (1992-1995). Since 1996 he has worked at the EC-JRCI, where he has coordinated the Project on Mediterranean and Regional Perspectives and the Action on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development. He is currently coordinating activities related to quantitative analysis of the farming sector in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2011-2014 he was a member of the editorial board of the journal Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy (Oxford University Press). He is 2015 to date Associate Editor of Agricultural Economics, the journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (Blackwell/Elsevier). He has published on agricultural economics, transition and development economics. 

Laura Riesgo, PhD, is associate professor at Pablo de Olavide University and currently a researcher at the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission (EC), Seville, Spain. Previously she was a researcher in agricultural economics at the University of Valladolid, Spain, (2001-2002) and at EC-JRC (2009-2011). Her research interests fall in the areas of agricultural economics and natural resource economics, with a specific interest in agricultural water use, agricultural sustainability, socioeconomic impact of genetically modified crops, modelling of farmers' behaviour and, more recently, development economics. She has participated in many researchprojects funded