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Small Farms Should Stop Trying To Compete

June 1, 2026 Gunnar Rundgren, Resilience. , , ,
A week ago, I asked for “real-world examples of technologies that flip the competition in favour of small and diverse.” I got a lot of comments on this article, some here, but most on Facebook. While many mentioned various smart technologies, I don’t think anybody could point to that this or that technology could make small farms profitable in competing with large farms. Clearly, you can reduce the disadvantages of being small by being a smart farmer and using the best technology and smart management. And some technologies “de-scale” well. Virtual fences were mentioned.

New Co-op Financial Association For Southern Small Farmers

January 14, 2025 Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , ,
East Point, Georgia - This past October, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund ("the Federation") joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other partners for the announcement of the historic launch of the Southern Farmers Financial Association (SFFA). This new cooperatively-owned institution was created to increase access to capital for its member-owners to begin farming or strengthen existing small farming operations and agriculture-based businesses in high-poverty areas across the Southeast.

Small Farming, Urbanisation And Climate Migration

December 2, 2024 Jake Smaje, Resilience.org. , , , ,
Bangladesh is a small country that sits within the Northeast of South Asia with India wrapped around it, and Myanmar to the South. Despite its small size and relatively recent independence, Bangladesh plays an oversized role in the way poverty, development, climate change and urbanisation are imagined globally. Often in discussions of climate change the conversation turns to Bangladesh as a country imagined to be sinking, throwing out waves of climate migrants across the world. For many reasons this vision is wrong. I don’t have space to go into this in depth here  (see further references below). Instead, I want to tell a different but connected story about Bangladesh, urbanisation and the environment.
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