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For example, during the Great Depression, US President Herbert Hoover signed the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, intended to protect American workers and farmers from foreign competition.
Investments in soil nutrients and water harvesting could help African farmers double or triple their food yields.
School meal programs using locally produced food could boost attendance by poor children, especially girls, and improve their ability to learn, while also providing an expanded market for local farmers.
We start with 100 farmers producing 100 units of food: technological progress enables 50 to produce the same amount, and the other 50 to move to factories that produce washing machines or cars or whatever.
Suppose the more productive farmers have no desire for washing machines or cars, but instead employ the 50 surplus workers either as low-paid domestic servants or higher-paid artists, providing face-to-face and difficult-to-automate services.
Or suppose that 25 of the surplus farmers become criminals, and the other 25 police.
If farmers become much better at growing food while teachers become little better at teaching kids, the cost of food will tend to fall relative to the cost of education.
Moreover, the proportion of the population engaged in farming will tend to fall, since fewer farmers are needed to feed the entire country.
Moreover, most of India’s working poor toil as farmers or in small-scale urban manufacturing; for them, escaping the heat means forgoing a paycheck.
Once freed from the flawed CAP, Brexit’s proponents argue, the UK will be able to build a more competitive agricultural sector that better serves farmers and agricultural workers, including by reducing dependence on distorting subsidies.
In short, the existential challenge facing farmers lies within Britain’s own borders.
Of course, UK farmers will face increased hardship from losing the EU market, which accounts for more than half of what they export.
Blocking EU migrants from the UK would also hurt farmers, given that many depend on the seasonal workforce.
This includes the US, which is already seeking approval for its farmers to sell chlorine-washed chicken in the UK.
Yet the likelihood that British trade negotiators will secure favorable terms for domestic farmers is low.
Moreover, unlike New Zealand’s negotiators, who always placed agriculture at the top of the agenda, UK negotiators are poorly placed to ensure that free-trade agreements protect domestic farmers.
Given the current state of British agriculture, it will be very difficult for UK farmers to compete with such imports.
Many farmers are suffering a long-standing crisis in farm incomes.
For starters, they must take action to protect the rural environment, ensure animal welfare, and improve education, knowledge transfer, and business training for farmers and agricultural workers.
For example, they could facilitate the provision of affordable insurance for farmers or create some type of mutual-assistance scheme.
Meanwhile, farmers are drilling deeper than ever for water – some wells are 500 meters deep – without any regulation.
For starters, national governments must work to modernize agricultural practices, including by training farmers and introducing more efficient irrigation tools.
Reducing farmers’ dependence on rainfall is essential.
Traditional farmers are likely to view them as unfair competition.
Traditionally, states’ rights were invoked by southern states to defend slavery, and then nearly a century of Jim Crow (the legal framework for racial segregation), from federal interference, thereby preserving southern business owners’ and farmers’ control of their black labor force.
At the London Conference, world leaders should support the counter-narcotics strategy recently approved by the Afghan government, which would reduce economic dependence on opium production, punish traffickers and dealers, and provide sustainable economic alternatives for poppy farmers.
This has given Africa’s smallholder farmers new tools for making evidence-based decisions about their operations, thereby increasing crop yields and reducing operating expenses.
Twiga’s approach has helped farmers access more lucrative markets, increased consumer choice, and dramatically reduced post-harvest losses and waste.
With harvest failures, failed crop-insurance schemes that benefited insurers rather than indebted farmers, and inadequate attention to irrigation, credit, price-support, and other needed inputs, farmer suicides have risen to record levels.
Just before the state elections, tens of thousands of farmers from around the country marched on the national capital, New Delhi, demanding that their grievances be addressed.
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