Rising demand for food in low- and middle-income countries is opening up new opportunities for farms and related businesses. This demand is being driven by population growth, higher incomes and urbanization. Rapid change, however, poses a range of environmental, health and equity challenges across the highly heterogeneous farming production systems worldwide.
Helping to ensure hundreds of millions of resource-constrained, small-scale farmers, processors and marketers benefit from these opportunities while addressing environmental and other challenges will be crucial to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.