This blog post was written jointly with Cristina Chiarella for the Land Systems for Sustainability Lab website Smallholder farmers in Mozambique call their fields machambas. Machambas constitute a key source of income and food to most smallholders in this region. Definitions of what constitutes a smallholder are manifold, but in the majority of cases, the term relates to the land area available for production. As such, “smallholder” is an umbrella term for diverse modes of production and cannot …