Word Finder - smallholder

definition

A person who owns or runs a smallholding.

definition

A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.

example

"…planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders." (Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South: "Introduction" 9, 2003)

The disease has a major impact upon smallholder dairy schemes as higher performing exotic animals are highly susceptible.

For seven years he worked as a vine planter, irrigation ditch digger, cow puncher, and smallholder in the new Western state.

A smallholder coffee farmer bends to inspect several bushes which have just caught his attention.

A major project in the basin is aiming to irrigate 25,000 hectares of land for smallholder farming.

This is the hallmark of a peasant smallholder from where many design ideas originate.

Milcreek A unique range of compact manure spreaders, especially designed for equestrian and smallholder use.

The voice of the smallholder too often remains unheard.

The average monthly income of a smallholder cocoa farmer in Ghana is less than £ 20.

However, most people in the country, and almost all the poorest, depend on smallholder agriculture for their livelihoods.

Kayonza is a co-operative of 4,000 smallholder growers - 14% of whom are women.

Many of the farmers who suffer losses are smallholder dairy producers.