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The economic lives of smallholder farmers - An analysis based on household data from nine countries
… buying food in the market, they diversify their crops as a risk management strategy to stabilize their income. By growing many crops, they minimize their exposure to risk, such as price shocks. Even if specialization in one … efficiency, poor smallholders diversify to spread risk over many crops. The owners of large farms are wealthier …