Nicola Horlick, a London investment banker, and Barbara Stocking, the Chief Executive of Oxfam GB…[disagreed over] the role of small farmers in global food production. Horlick was arguing strongly that the increasing global food needs meant that small farm production would not be sufficient to meet global demand and that this justified large-scale investments in agriculture in developing countries…one of the world's largest global food traders, Olam International…owns farms and plantations, but it also works with 1.4 million small farmers worldwide…Olam is not the only large company committed to working with small farmers. Across Africa, there are many examples of links between groups of small farmers and large companies. Global companies such as Unilever are committed to working with small farmers…The good news is that…some of the big companies actually involved in agriculture have a much more nuanced view about how to respond to the global food crisis.