Smallholders

Should developers be able to run roughshod over smallholders and ancestral dwellings?

But for all the surrounding bucolic beauty, farmers and smallholders in northern Lazio, as in much of rural Italy, are becoming alarmed at the increasingly fickle weather with erratic rainfall, spring frost, tempestuous wind and summer drought.

Cotula has also studied other business models that involve collaboration with smallholders, including tenant farming and sharecropping.