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Local governments are saddled with a mountain of debt and wasted investments, banks accumulate risky loans, and farmers lose their land.
Tokyoites, for example, traded their precious garments, from wedding dresses to fine kimonos, with rural farmers for rice and vegetables.
If the only thing that changed about NAFTA members’ behavior was that they exported less to the US, America workers could benefit, with US farmers or manufacturers – including much of Trump’s own electoral base – becoming more competitive within the US market.
Rethinking Animal AgricultureTASMANIA – In mid-July, as a brutal drought decimated crops, some European dairy and meat farmers were forced to cull their herds early to reduce the number of animals they needed to feed.
By planting more beans, peas, and lentils, farmers would help combat climate change by lowering greenhouse-gas emissions, and would benefit from crops that are more resilient to drier, warmer weather.
Meanwhile, European farmers will suffer through more droughts like the one they endured this summer, as will other food producers around the world.
Developing-country governments also stopped subsidizing farmers or being involved in food marketing, storage, transportation, or credit provision.
Meanwhile, rich countries continue to subsidize and protect their farmers, thereby undermining food production in developing countries.
Rich countries have provided generous subsidies and other incentives for increased bio-fuel production, while poorer countries encouraging bio-fuel production have provided far fewer market-distorting incentives to farmers.
Tons of food gets plowed under the ground because there’s so much of it farmers can’t get the prices they want.
Now Germany is trying to devise a form of restricted EU membership which would exclude eastern Europe from the common agricultural market in order to protect a handful of Bavarian farmers.
In agriculture, small farmers would be placed on a collision course with US agro-business and their heavily subsidized farm exports.
It is a source of constant delight to me to find cellphones in the hands of the unlikeliest of my fellow citizens: taxi drivers, paan wallahs (betel vendors), farmers, and fishermen.
In fact, regardless of whether or not the TPP is implemented, Japan’s farmers must pursue this approach to secure their futures, rather than hoping that protective subsidies continue ad infinitum.
Likewise, dairy farmers in the European Union receive $2 per day per cow in subsidies (which is higher than most African people’s incomes).
Indeed, the CAP is ensuring neither sustainable agriculture nor decent incomes for all farmers.
Xi’s agenda offers only vague promises of increased property rights for farmers, while recent government pronouncements indicate that the bureaucracy wants to restrict such rights.
Irrigation has failed or is inadequate in Helmand, Uruzgan, and Kandahar – three of the top five opium-producing provinces – where indebted farmers are hooked by the economics: opium brings in eight times as much cash as wheat and uses less water.
In the current stalemate over the Bali Package, India argues that its stance is legitimate, because it is helping millions of poor, food-insecure Indian farmers.
Opponents, including the US, argue that India’s food-security program is distorting world prices and harming poor farmers in Africa.
They’re not: If trade negotiators don’t like their Chinese counterparts’ tone, they can’t simply go looking for a more reasonable or more eager partner who can open up China’s markets for US farmers.
Rich countries should help African farmers use improved seed varieties, more fertilizer, and better water management, such as small-scale irrigation.
The techniques are known, but Africa’s farmers are too poor to get started.
With increased help to African farmers to grow more food (as opposed to shipping food aid from the US), it would be possible to double or even triple crop yields.
The World Food Program can help peasant farmers to produce more food in the countryside and then purchase the food to use in food-for-work programs oriented to construction projects.
Government then brought these advances to millions of American farmers.
Our study found that in many cases, the best solutions for young farmers are already being designed by young people.
Another interviewee created a mobile app to help farmers connect with local seed and fertilizer suppliers.
Farmers have been unloading produce below cost, because no one has the money to purchase it, and the winter crop could not be sown in time, because no one had cash for seeds.
But poverty, creaking supply chains, rampant food waste, and badly formulated, poorly executed policies, such as rigid subsidies for grain farmers, prevent millions from receiving their share.
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