This garden produces food year-round and is a model of small-scale sustainable agriculture.
With renewed interest since the late 1990s by farmers and the public in small-scale agriculture, their numbers have recently made a small recovery.
The number employed outside small-scale agriculture and pastoralism was about 6 million.
The economy of most rural communities on the island is based on small-scale agriculture.
Until the mid-1990s, the area was primarily used for small-scale agriculture.
Most people work in public services and there is also some small-scale agriculture.
Over two-thirds of them rely on small-scale agriculture for their food and wages.
These countries need subsidies in order to guarantee food security and to support small-scale agriculture.
Even with fair prices on the world market, large areas of small-scale European agriculture would still not be competitive.
In particular, we must support small-scale agriculture and healthy food production.