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Global Seed Companies Miss 90% of World’s Million Smallholder Farmers

February 28, 2019
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Five hundred million smallholder farmers worldwide account for 80% of global food production, yet 90% of them do not have access to the latest seed varieties developed by the world’s leading seed companies to cope with changing environments and help tackle hunger, reflecting slow progress by global seed producers to reach a core market, according to a new study.

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Bridging the gap between the world’s leading seed companies and the smallholder farmer

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