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Close to 1.4 billion people live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, while an estimated 2.5 billion people are involved in full- or part-time smallholder agriculture. That is according to according to Smallholders, Food Security and the Environment — a report commissioned by the UN Environment Program-World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. 

Also, most of these are smallholders who manage approximately 500 million small farms and provide over 80 per cent of the food consumed in large parts of the developing world, particularly Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.