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" They will nurture innovative partnerships to help boost diverse agricultural sales - - from creating two new farmers markets in Rhode Island to establishing a North Dakota-based website for marketing farm products . While conceding that " the poor are more affected by market failures , " the World Bank strategy 's focus remains one of using market mechanisms to shift " subsistence-oriented " and " small market-oriented " farmers into the commercial farm sector . The New England Small Farms Institute will partner with nine other organizations to foster good conservation practices on their farms , and will form a network focused on aiding new farmers and start-up enterprises within the Chicopee River Basin . Capital accumulation was promoted among the Tiv tribes in Nigeria , for instance , through the use of " bams , " farmers ' associations based on emergency interfamily food and money borrowing . Every independent set of data I have seen reaches the same conclusion : the technology increases costs somewhat , but imposes a " price " farmers are willing to pay for the simplicity and robustness of the weed management system . In my 20s , when I was trying hard to reinvent myself as a person without a Kentucky accent , I often found myself nevertheless the lone argumentative voice in social circles where " farmers " were lumped with political troglodytes and devotees of All-Star wrestling . The Goldsmith / Hildyard argument is that " local allegiances , " " local communities , " " La Vielle France , " farmers on the land , " nation-states , " and so on must be actively protected from " multinational interests , " which supposedly impose alien ways of living . Each participant met the operational definition of " successful new farmer " based on a multifaceted typology of new farmers developed by the Northeast New Farmer Network Project ( Sheils , 2004 ) .