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Ethanol subsidies, such as those paid to American corn farmers, do not accomplish policymakers’ avowed environmental goals, but do divert grain and thus help drive up world food prices.
After all, their constituents, the farmers, are the ones pocketing the money.
For example, by planting scientifically engineered crops that grow faster,
farmers
can harvest them before, say, cyclone season, which will become increasingly violent as global temperatures rise.
As it stands, many of the
farmers
or loggers who exploit the Amazon do so illegally, risking fines or sanctions.
As the government hands more power over the rainforest to large business owners, ordinary citizens – including smallholder
farmers
and poor urban dwellers – are bound to suffer.
On the supply side, there must be more support for poor
farmers
in drug-producing countries to give them viable alternatives to growing coca.
Coca
farmers
and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.
If all of Colombia’s
farmers
stopped growing coca tomorrow, unrestrained demand by the world’s 13 million cocaine users would quickly generate as much cultivation somewhere else.
The other major reason for killing kangaroos is that
farmers
regard them as a pest, eating grass that the
farmers
want to use to feed more profitable cattle and sheep.
True to form, he recently announced a big increase in US food aid – good for the hungry poor and good for American
farmers.
We should also avoid the cheap political trick of holding down what we pay to poor
farmers
in order to benefit poor city dwellers.
The best way to deal with the problem is to subsidize food for the poor; we should not cut the price we pay
farmers
for growing it.
After all, a shift toward sustainability cannot come at the expense of farmers’ livelihoods.
In agriculture, it protects the world’s rich
farmers
by stifling opportunity for the poor, at a cost of some $280 billion a year to taxpayers and consumers.
There is now an urgent need to finance existing food aid programs to address mounting food demands, avert further social unrest, and ensure that
farmers
get the costlier farm inputs they need for the next planting season.
This comes largely at the expense of small
farmers
and consumers, particularly the poor.
And achieving food security is impossible without agricultural systems and practices that not only support
farmers
and produce enough food to meet people’s nutritional needs, but that also preserve natural resources by, for example, preventing soil erosion and relying on more efficient nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers.
But the fault lies with the program’s method, which is to rely on the state both to collect the food from
farmers
and to deliver it to the poor.
A carefully designed public-private partnership – in which the state gives a subsidy directly to the poor, who then buy food from private
farmers
and traders – would benefit all.
Assistance to non-governmental organizations should be expanded, and US assistance also should be targeted toward small
farmers
and small- and medium-sized businesses.
A recent fashion in St. Petersburg are restaurants with names such as "Lenin's Mating Call," "USSR," and "Russian Kitsch," which has frescos showing collective
farmers
socializing with American Indians while Leonid Brezhnev, resembling Frank Sinatra, gives a speech to a stone-age tribe.
For example, economists generally agree that agricultural subsidies are inefficient and that the benefits to European
farmers
come at large costs to everyone else in Europe, in the form of high prices, high taxes, or both.
Thus the government has no appropriate means of dealing with the recent increases in spontaneous demonstrations by laid-off urban workers or impoverished farmers, let alone dissatisfied religious sects.
As a result,
farmers
are better able to get their goods to market before they perish, and to build more efficient irrigation systems, which save the global agricultural industry $8-22 billion annually.
Under such a scheme, the Soviet Union in 1986, for example, would have been required to pay for the costs that the Chernobyl accident imposed on European
farmers
and health-care systems.
Electrifying agricultural areas would facilitate the storage and transportation of farmed products, improve food security, and increase farmers’ earning capacity.
Consequently, countries that are able to transform
farmers
into factory workers reap a huge growth bonus.
New data from a World Bank study that compares farm policies around the world since 1955 shows for the first time just how far today’s African governments have gone to reduce the cost to
farmers
of the export taxes, marketing boards, and other interventions imposed by previous regimes (www.worldbank.org/agdistortions).
Further reforms could yield additional benefits, but much of the handicap imposed on African
farmers
by post-colonial governments has now been removed.
These three mega-trends put African
farmers
in a better position than ever before to take advantage of increased public and private investment.
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