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Bt cotton technology has failed to control pests or secure farmers lives and livelihoods.
In Venezuela, the Law of Just Costs and Prices is one reason why farmers do not plant.
Even worse, farmers are now relying on groundwater that is being depleted by over-pumping.
It also may be one of the few local pathways out of poverty for small farmers.
In the late summer, farmers in the Western Hemisphere brought their crops to traders for export, and demanded cash payment, which the traders needed to raise from their banks.
When an agricultural research unit called the World Agroforestry Center discovered that a certain tree could help African farmers grow more food, they introduced a new and valuable approach to overcoming Africa's chronic food crisis.
Don’t the farm subsidies and other forms of support in the United States and European Union undercut the livelihood of millions of poor farmers?
In a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she wrote, “We believe this approach could be a blunt and imprecise instrument of fear, rather than one of persuasion, that will take us down a dangerous path and adversely impact US manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.”
Farmers across Europe are anxious about the future of agriculture in a globalized world.
Americans, including farmers, are more accustomed to paying for innovative technologies and products--a disposition reflected in a recent US Supreme Court decision that extended the scope of patents on plants.
Europeans consumers' growing awareness of their rights and farmers' increasing fear of dependence on multinational companies are symptoms of a deeper concern about values and priorities: the type of environment we want, the role of biodiversity, our tolerance for risk, and the price we are prepared to pay for regulation.
Are GMOs a blessing or a curse for these people and the farmers among them?
So it took another couple of months before the grain reached the farmers.
Farmers were left with a pink grain that they were told not to eat, only to plant.
But recent harvests had been lousy and farmers had little or nothing to feed their animals and themselves.
Like farmers all over the world, Iraqi farmers mistrust their government.
At that point, it seems, most farmers began giving the grain to their livestock and eating it themselves.
But most farmers had no access to radio, television, or daily newspapers.
So the farmers dumped grain wherever they could--along roadsides, in irrigation canals, in rivers.
It is another when the European project means that French workers face competition from Polish plumbers, Romanian farmers, and Turkish shop clerks.
On June 15, an attempt to evict farmers from a disputed piece of land turned violent, resulting in the death of 11 peasants and six policemen.
This is not a complete surprise: in many countries, working classes and rural farmers have benefited from per capita income increases and a broadening social safety net, while the middle classes feel the pinch from rising inflation, poor public services, corruption, and intrusive government.
From the beginning, the European Economic Community was shaped by a bad compromise between Germany and France: French farmers could charge excessive prices, and Germany could sell its industrial goods to France.
American farmers also lose out, because they are denied access to the huge European market.
We need to concentrate on building nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs that include small-scale farmers, households, women, and children.
Moreover, agricultural policies, subsidies, and investments have traditionally benefited cereal farmers.
Research conducted in a variety of countries has shown that literate rural farmers manage systems and technologies (including water conservation and risk evaluation) more efficiently than their illiterate peers.
Eliminating this subsidy would help 10 million poor cotton farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.
The only losers would be the 25,000 rich farmers who currently divvy up $3-4 billion in government handouts each year.
As even children know, the CAP is a handsome and totally undeserved present to wealthy European (especially French) farmers at the expense of the struggling farmers of developing countries and EU consumers.
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