Andrew Noble, Senior Research Fellow at the International Water Management Institute, responds to this blog post.
"My concern with land grabbing for foreign food sovereignty is that it should not be promoted at all and that this should not be confused with commercial agriculture. Further, I do feel that we need to think clearly about smallholder farmers and as Chambers (1997) intimates their high level of productivity and diversity exceed those of large scale farming systems."
Andrew Noble, Senior Research Fellow at the International Water Management Institute, responds to this blog post.
"My concern with land grabbing for foreign food sovereignty is that it should not be promoted at all and that this should not be confused with commercial agriculture. Further, I do feel that we need to think clearly about smallholder farmers and as Chambers (1997) intimates their high level of productivity and diversity exceed those of large scale farming systems."
Read his full response here: https://wle.cgiar.org/blogs/2012/11/12/response-to-land-grabbing-feeding-...