To make matters worse, smallholdings are fragmenting in many countries.

让事态更恶化的是，小型农场在许多国家是不成规模的。

The bill would let farmers and ranchers with smallholdings to work land closer to river banks and to use hilltops.

修正案扩大了小型农场主和牧场主沿河用地的范围，并允许他们使用山顶土地。

Desert takes up some 95% of the country, but the fertile remainder, albeit fractured into millions of smallholdings, has become much more productive.

沙漠约占埃及国土面积95%，但其肥沃的土地，尽管碎成了数百万个小农场，已经变得越来越高产了。