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Moreover, Malawi has a proven track record of sharply higher food yields when impoverished farmers are helped with inputs.
It was also the argument William Jennings Bryan made during his 1896 presidential campaign, when he promised easier money to his core constituency: Midwestern farmers who had been hit hard by high interest rates and declining commodity prices.
But why did farmers in Kenya and other African countries not have access to drought-resistant crop varieties before catastrophe struck?
Unfortunately, Kenya’s government listened and did not permit their farmers to grow genetically modified (GM) maize, even though it has been approved, sown, harvested, and eaten by both humans and animals in South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, and other countries for many years.
Lastly, some argue that if farmers are permitted to sow GM varieties, they become dependent on large seed producers such as Monsanto, which have patent protection – and thus a monopoly – on the seed.
The fact that virtually all US maize and soybean farmers, and all papaya farmers, use GM seed indicates that it is good business for them.
Similarly, a large share of farmers – most of them smallholders – in Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, China, India, and other countries, prefer GM seed because they make more money from the resulting crops.
But that puts the cart before the horse: The predominance of big companies partly reflects anti-GM activism, which has made the approval process so long and costly that only rich companies catering to first-world farmers can afford to see it through.
Finally, it is often claimed that GM crops simply mean costlier seeds and less money for farmers.
But farmers have a choice.
More than five million cotton farmers in India have flocked to GM cotton, because it yields higher net incomes.
The decision by the IARC to classify substances like 2,4-D and glyphosate as potentially harmful is likely to cause alarm among farmers and consumers, who will wonder about the appropriateness of its continued use in commercial agriculture or gardening.
If products such as glyphosate and 2,4-D were to become unavailable, farmers would be forced to resort to other methods to control weeds – none of them as efficient.
Nor would the problem be limited to farmers.
Three-quarters of the world’s poorest people get their food and income from farming small plots of land, and most of these smallholder farmers are women.
When farmers can produce more and earn more income, they become more resilient to shocks like severe weather and can put themselves and their families on a path to self-sufficiency.
The first focused on 225,000 of Ethiopia’s most at-risk farmers, and got them what they needed immediately: food.
Similarly, Ethiopia has made strides towards shifting agricultural policies and investing more in productivity improvements for small farmers, with increased spending helping to boost crop yields over the past several years.
Heartier crop varieties are helping farmers to weather tough conditions.
New drought-tolerant maize varieties, for example, are already benefiting more than two million smallholder farmers in Africa.
Other projects – including those supported by the United States’ Feed the Future program, the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, and organizations such as the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa – are finding new ways to bolster the productivity of small farmers across the developing world.
That is why it is more important than ever for international donors and African governments to continue to support programs that give small farmers access to the good seeds, quality tools, and reliable markets that they need to become self-sufficient.
According to Diamonds and Clubs, a recent report from Partnership Africa Canada, soldiers have press-ganged peasant farmers into working in mining syndicates at Marange.
This pits farmers and animal-feed producers against one another in a fierce competition over land.
Land access, which is more unevenly distributed than incomes, is a deciding factor in whether someone suffers from malnutrition: 20% of households that experience hunger do not own land, and 50% of people who experience hunger are small-scale farmers.
The demonstrators indulge in an idyllic world of windmills throughout the emerging world where happy farmers and their donkeys bond with an ever-renewing nature.
But its reaction to the book A Survey of Chinese Peasants, which is based on interviews over several years with farmers in the poor province of Anhui, was a telling reminder that public intellectuals are not welcome to contribute to that effort.
The confusion has been made complete by the existence of relatively strong nationalist and populist parties that use the numerous Polish farmers as their electoral base.
Thus, EU budget negotiations are framed exclusively in terms of what national treasuries have to pay and what farmers and regions at home receive.
Payments to farmers to keep them out of poverty should be shifted onto national budgets.
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