Smallholder

Following the recent food supply and price crises, world leaders pledged to invest much more in agriculture, especially smallholder agriculture.

Well Ethiopia, in terms of raising agricultural output and helping their smallholder farmers, really did a fantastic job.

[…] planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders.