LEISA Magazine | 25.1 | March 2009
Small-scale family farmers live in environments ranging from mountainous, dry areas to lush, tropical forests. Together, they engage in many kinds of small-scale farming systems. All these systems combined harbour and nurture biodiversity.
They also safeguard the resilience of agro-ecological systems against natural and human-made disasters. This issue explicitly recognises the value of this diversity of landscapes, ways of life, kind of crops and agricultural systems.