After three seasons of trying to get my family's rice farm in the Mekong Delta to break even, I've started wondering if we're measuring success the wrong way. We switched to organic methods two years ago, and while yields dropped by 20%, our costs fell more than I expected. But the real question is whether smallholder farmers like us can ever compete with large industrial operations that benefit from economies of scale. What does sustainable agriculture actually mean for a family that depends on the land for everything?