"That's not poor planning. It's insurance." You've probably seen the postcard version of smallholder farming: a woman in a bright kanga, smiling over a basket of vegetables, green hills rolling out behind her. It's not a lie. But it's only half the picture, and it's usually the easier half to look at. Having spent years working alongside farmers on several continents, including projects across Africa, we'd rather tell you the other half—the part that doesn't make it onto the

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