Farmers biggest source of investment in agriculture
Despite attention from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and official development assistance, farmers are by far the largest source of investment in agriculture, the State of Food and Agriculture 2012 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization published last week said. Farmers in low and middle income countries invest more than US$170 billion annually, about $150 per farmer, in their farms, the report said. This is three times as much as all other sources of investment combined, four times the size of the public sector’s contribution and more than 50 times the size of official development assistance to these countries, the report said. …
