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If funders take notice, farmers are poised to respond – and 2010 could mark the start of a bright new era in African agriculture.
These unfair trade practices have a devastating impact on the income and living standards of farmers in South America, Africa, and Asia, who are unable to compete with their richer, coddled rivals.
Instead, as the DPJ had promised its voters, the government focused on increasing spending, including huge new grants to households and farmers.
The genius of China’s state capitalism is that it ensured the continued dominance of Communist Party elites while improving the allocation of resources, not that it alone could have provided price incentives to farmers and then managed liberalization of urban markets.
The total costs, mostly to wean developed-world farmers from subsidies, are more than 10,000 times smaller, at approximately $50 billion per year for a decade or two.
For centuries, communities grew as economic opportunities expanded; for example, farmers had bigger families as demand for products increased, requiring more labor to deliver goods to consumers.
Typically, economic development occurs as workers and farmers move from traditional, low-productivity sectors (such as agriculture and petty services) to modern factory work and services.
Agricultural productivity increases during this process, owing to better farming techniques and a decline in the number of farmers working the land.
Farmers are the Second most cossetted voting bloc.
West Europe’s farmers provided ideal role models for this sort of rent-seeking.
A crucial experiment is now underway in Malawi and other places that may help to expand farm output so that other poor farmers need not surrender their children for adoption.
Once pushing industrialization at the expense of agriculture, African leaders routinely ignored ordinary farmers.
Yet getting farmers to grow the right crops, and more of them, is easier said than done.
Farmers lack the money for crucial inputs such as fertilizer.
Sadly, African governments have failed miserably in teaching farmers improved methods.
The costs of the government’s failure to support farmers can be seen in the stunted bodies of children and the poor diets of adults, even in a year when Malawi is witnessing bumper harvests of corn, the country’s staple.
Philere Nkhoma, an adviser to farmers in Malawi, asks.
To be sure, Nkhoma’s ideas about how to transform the lives of peasant farmers in Africa are not new.
She is part of a new generation of urban Africans committed to integrating farmers and markets – and to getting their hands dirty.
Sachs knows the freebies to farmers guarantee gains in the short run, but he’s convinced that African villagers, once freed from “the poverty trap,” can thrive on their own.
African farmers need improved technologies and better access to agricultural markets in Europe and the United States.
“We are not fools,” was how my neighbors in Normandy – many of them farmers or artisans – put it shortly after the results of the first vote had come in.
Over the last two decades, such crop varieties have been cultivated on more than 1.5 billion hectares by more than 17 million farmers in some 30 countries – without disrupting a single ecosystem or causing so much as a stomachache.
Most of these new crop varieties are designed to resist herbicides, so that farmers can adopt more environmentally friendly, no-till cultivation practices, and many have also been engineered to resist pests and diseases that ravage crops.
In short, farmers can get more crop for the drop.
Texas rice farmers, however, pay just $10, and every year they consume the equivalent of a five-foot flood.
Instead, US farmers should be encouraged to shift to other crops, such as sesame, with the government sharing the cost of replacement machinery needed to cultivate and harvest them.
The project’s realization has already led to alleged human rights abuses against poor farmers in the region, who claim that they have been denied access to their land.
A 30-kilometer exclusion zone still rings Chernobyl, leaving once-fertile land unable to be tended by local farmers.
On land, like at sea, China uses civilian resources – herders, farmers, and grazers – as the tip of the spear.
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