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The numbers are truly alarming: subsidies in advanced countries exceed the total income of sub-Saharan Africa; the average European subsidy per cow matches the $2 per day poverty level on which billions of people barely subsist;America's $4 billion cotton subsidies to 25,000 well-off farmers bring misery to 10 million African farmers and more than offset America's miserly foreign aid to some of the affected countries.
Similarly, farmers can now sell directly to the market, including hotels and restaurants, rather than just to the government.
Obasanjo has called on Muslim farmers in the area to cull their birds, a key source of protein in a region where malnutrition is a constant threat.
Obama’s one new priority – to expand US support for African farmers – reflects a shrewd appreciation of how the expansion of agriculture can quickly lift many rural Africans out of poverty.
The UN has focused on getting seeds and fertilizers into the hands of small farmers.
I even joined farmers’ representatives in a rally in front of Japan’s Diet.
Our farmers’ average age has increased by ten years, to more than 66.
Small Farms’ Large BenefitsROME – As drought becomes increasingly common, farmers worldwide are struggling to maintain crop yields.
In the United States, farmers are experiencing the most severe drought in more than a half-century.
In Africa, smallholder farmers – who provide 80% of the sub-Saharan region’s food – need infrastructure for agricultural development, including irrigation and roads, as well as better market organization and access to technology.
Not only in Africa – in countries like Burkina Faso and Ethiopia – but also in emerging countries like China, India, and Vietnam, experience has repeatedly shown that smallholder farmers can lead agricultural growth while stimulating broader economic development.
Small farmers, both women and men, are Africa’s biggest agricultural investors.
But African farmers encounter significant barriers to achieving their potential.
Agricultural development efforts should, therefore, focus on promoting the growth and sustainability of smallholder farmers and small rural businesses.
We should consider not only how to improve the ability of smallholder farmers to grow food; we also must strengthen their ability to participate in markets, while improving the way those markets function.
Moreover, sustainable investment linkages between smallholder farmers and the private sector are needed.
By enabling farmers to increase their output and incomes, smallholder-inclusive private investment can bolster economic growth and food security.
Finally, farmers’ organizations, which are crucial intermediaries between producers and corporate investors, must be involved in the formulation of plans and policies aimed at agricultural development.
But that is not all: With knowledge, technology, infrastructure, and enabling policies, smallholder farmers in Africa and elsewhere can drive sustainable agricultural development, contribute to global food security, and catalyze economic growth worldwide.
Harvest of SuicideNEW DELHI – An epidemic of farmers’ suicides has spread across four Indian states – Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Punjab – over the last decade.
According to official data, more than 160,000 farmers have committed suicide in India since 1997.
These suicides are most frequent where farmers grow cotton, and appear directly linked to the presence of seed monopolies.
For the supply of cotton seeds in India has increasingly slipped out of the hands of farmers and into the hands of global seed producers like Monsanto.
For farmers, this means deeper debt.
This means that farmers can’t renew their own supply but must return to the monopolist for new seed each planting season.
For farmers, this means higher costs; for seed corporations, higher profits.
State regulation does continue to exist where seeds are concerned, but nowadays it is aimed at farmers, who are being pushed into dependency on patented, corporate seed.
Rising production costs and falling prices for their products is a recipe for indebtedness, and debt is the main cause of farmers’ suicides.
The cost of pesticides for farmers has increased 13-fold in the same period.
For farmers, it translates into suicide.
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