Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security - Fact Sheet Collection

SALSA was an EU-funded, transdisciplinary, research project that worked for a better understanding of how small farms and food businesses contribute to sustainable food and nutrition security (FNS). SALSA brought together 16 European and African partners, including research institutes, universities and farmers’ organizations. Under the umbrella of the HORIZON 2020 programme, SALSA pioneered a novel integrated multi-method approach in 30 regions in Europe and Africa, using the most recent satellite technologies, transdisciplinary approaches, food systems mapping and participatory foresight analysis. This collection of Fact Sheets gives an overview of the work undertaken by SALSA partners in 30 regions representing the range of situations in all of Europe and, to a lesser extent, Africa, concerning the number and relative importance of small farms, their location on the urban-to-rural spectrum, and access to global markets.