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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Creating Sustainable Livelihoods on Ten Acres or Less
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:18:33 -0700


REPORT: Small is Successful - Creating Sustainable Livelihoods on Ten Acres
or Less
http://www.ecologicalland.coop/projects-small-successful

Our report - Small is Successful - examines eight smallholdings with
land-based businesses on 10 acres or less. The smallholdings demonstrate that
economically viable and highly sustainable land based livelihoods can be
created on holdings of this size. While the incomes generated would be
described as modest, none of the smallholdings receive subsidies, and the
income we have examined does not include money from non-agricultural
activities, such as any courses, consultancy work or B&Bs that the
smallholders also provide. By comparison, English farms lost an average of
£19,000 in agricultural activities last year, remaining in business largely
due to subsidies from the Single Payment Scheme.

The full report can be downloaded from here





  • [Livingontheland] Creating Sustainable Livelihoods on Ten Acres or Less, Tradingpost, 03/21/2011

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