My Life as an Agricultural Missionary | Sojourners

My Life as an Agricultural Missionary

If one does not know the questions smallholder farmers are asking, then one's 'answers' are unlikely to satisfy their needs.
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USAID U.S. Agency for International Development/ Flikr.com

MY WIFE AND I left London for Africa in 1952 to serve as “agricultural missionaries” through the Anglican Church Missionary Society. For 65 years we have been living and working with farming families who live off less than five acres of land. In fact, 85 percent of the world’s farms are less than five acres.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development estimates that there are some 500 million small farms worldwide, and more than 2 billion people depending largely on agriculture for their livelihoods. Smallholder farmers produce 80 percent of the food consumed in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

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