Contributions of small agriculture through the methodology of Standard Production Values

Abstract

There is growing recognition about the contribution of smallholder agriculture to the local food systems: the proximity consumer supply, informal exchanges, diversity in diets and self-consumption by the household.

The European Salsa (2016-2020) project is based on a territorial approach: it addresses small farms role in food chains at local level, in particular its productive capacity and contribution to food and nutrition security at subregional scale.

From the collection of information developed during this project, namely the areas of production of small farms and the activities developed in them, it was considered pertinent to understand the effective income which corresponds to the production on these small farms.

Thus, we will use the methodology of standard outputs (SO) applied to the study of some representative activities of the region. In this way it is intended to estimate the potential contribution of small agriculture to family income and to the local food systems, as well as to understand the amount of family and unfamiliar eventual or permanent work involved in this production.