Programs aiming to drive change within smallholder agri-food systems commonly involve training initiatives with a limited number of selected "model farmers" who then pass on the knowledge they have learned to the wider smallholder community. These model farmers are often chosen as they are seen to be opinion leaders, central individuals within social networks, who are presumed to have greater success in influencing people's behaviour and so driving change. Using data from an experiment implemented among Indonesian cocoa farmers, this study set out to determine whether this assumption is indeed the case.

This report from the International Labour Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank examines the implications of net zero emissions policies for employment patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean. TABLE readers may be particularly interested in the report’s comments on jobs in agriculture and plant-based food production, as well as the impacts of dietary change.

In this article for The Counter, author Sarah Mock describes her research with farmers across the United States. In writing her book, she originally set out to prove that agriculture should be organised around small family farms, but found that few farms of this type were financially stable. Instead, she delves into why small family farms are romanticised in the United States, discussing the history of land enclosure and subsidies.

According to this blog post by UK charity Rewilding Britain, a survey of 23 English rewilding projects shows that job opportunities on the rewilding sites increased 47% and volunteering opportunities increased nine-fold, compared to before the rewilding projects began. New job roles focused on nature-based tourism, restoration activities, informal recreation, livestock management and education.