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Aggressive expansion of proven low-cost, high-impact micro-irrigation techniques would do more to help small-scale farmers.

For Africa’s farmers, the challenges are particularly pronounced.

Given the vast economic and social benefits of a dynamic and modern agricultural sector, providing farmers with the incentives, investments, and regulations that they need to succeed should become a top priority.

According to the Africa Progress Panel’s latest annual report, Grain, Fish, Money – Financing Africa’s Green and Blue Revolutions, the problem is straightforward: the odds are stacked against Africa’s farmers.

This is particularly true for smallholder farmers, most of whom are women.

These farmers, who cultivate plots about the size of one or two football fields, typically lack reliable irrigation systems and quality inputs, such as seeds and soil supplements.

As if that were not enough, farmers are facing increasingly volatile climate conditions that increase the likelihood that their crops will fail.

And, when the crops are ready, farmers face major obstacles – including inadequate rural road systems and a lack of cold storage facilities – in delivering them to the market.

Yet, instead of supporting farmers, African governments have erected even more obstacles to growth, including excessive taxation, insufficient investment, and coercive policies.

Africa’s farmers need an enabling environment that enables them to overcome the challenges they face.

And, they must provide farmers with the infrastructure, energy supplies, and supportive policies that they need in order to get their products to the market.

Mobile technology has already begun to transform Africa’s agricultural industry, by providing farmers with valuable information like market prices, input support through e-vouchers, and even access to credit.

Finally, private-sector actors, farmers’ organizations, and civil-society groups must cooperate to advance agricultural development.

For example, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, supplies high-quality seeds – many of which are drought-resistant – to millions of smallholder farmers across the continent.

With broad action on policy, investment, and technology, Africa’s farmers can double their productivity within five years.

As Indian government officials reminded their peers during a World Trade Organization meeting earlier this year, meaningful agricultural reforms can begin only when rich countries reduce the “disproportionately large” subsidies they give their own farmers.

So Carter worked the phones, trying to persuade Iowa’s farmers to endorse an embargo on grain exports to the Soviet Union.

Although DDT is a (modestly) toxic substance, there is a world of difference between applying large amounts of it in the environment – as farmers did before it was banned – and using it carefully and sparingly to fight mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects.

By 1990, Peru had finally figured out that the reason poor farmers and miners were unwilling to identify guerrillas in their communities was because the Shining Path protected their rights.

In 2004, OECD countries spent more than four times their official development aid budgets on support for domestic farmers.

First, farming is geographically concentrated and farmers vote on agricultural policy above everything else, greatly enhancing the power of their votes – something that few, if any, urban consumers do.

Domestic farmers are portrayed as irreplaceable defenders of the social fabric and traditional values.

Farmers are well organized politically, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) has been a fierce defender of agricultural protectionism.

Japan’s demographic crisis is particularly acute in rural areas, where the average age of farmers is surpassing the retirement age.

France now has half the number of farmers it had 20 years ago.

That is good news for farmers and consumers around the world.

Ancient Athens became a “democracy” – literally, government by the people – when Kleisthenes organized ordinary fisher folk and farmers into a mass rabble capable of defeating Sparta-backed oligarchs.

Stalin’s decision in 1932 to force independent farmers – the kulaks – into large collectivized farms caused 3.3 million Ukrainians and ethnic Poles to starve to death the following year.

He provided farmers with debt relief, dished out village funds, and rolled out cheap health care.

Rural women, and particularly poor female farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, have not yet benefited from the recent focus on gender equality.

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