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As a result, agricultural output soared, and farmers produced a range of additional crops, like flowers and vegetables, to sell directly to the public.
The casualties of our failure to do so will be future generations of flood victims in Asia and China, farmers in drought-hit Russia and Africa, and everyone’s grandchildren, like my five, with whom I have spent this summer.
Fishery resources are over-exploited; animal husbandry suffers a similar lack of rigorous management; and the country spends a fortune buying the meat and milk that it could easily produce for itself if farmers had the proper incentives.
Barriers to private companies’ entry into the agricultural sector will be removed, and farmers will be allowed to grow the crops they want, without official control over supply and demand.
While the Doha negotiators have settled many important issues, the final negotiations first stalled last year, owing to America’s refusal to cut its agricultural subsidies further and India’s insistence on special safeguards to prevent exposing its millions of subsistence farmers to unfairly subsidized US competition.
He has authorized the sale of farm machinery and tools – centralized until now – directly to farmers, as well as handing over idle land to private cooperatives and other organizations that request them.
The change is notable because both the US and Canada have long protected their dairy farmers from competition, even more than the rest of their agricultural sectors.
Open international trading relations (especially allowing farmers in developing countries greater access to rich countries' markets) is, of course, the best way to achieve this.
For the US, the EU, and Japan, it means ending massive subsidies to farmers and curtailing other forms of protection provided to uncompetitive sectors.
Displaced farmers and workers must be provided with the education and training required to enter new jobs, as well as the funds, health care, and other essential services that they need to tide them through the transition.
Similarly, French prudence will be under scrutiny during discussions of a new European financial framework, which will test France’s capacity to view EU budgets as something other than a means of redistributing EU cash, particularly to farmers.
Although there are more than 570 million farmers and seven billion consumers worldwide, just a handful of companies control the global industrial-agriculture value chain – from field to shop counter.
Most farmers, particularly in the global South, will never be able to afford expensive digital-age machinery.
Meanwhile, corporations are amassing market power at the expense of those at the bottom of the value chain: farmers and workers.
Today, half of the world’s 800 million starving people are small farmers and workers connected to the agricultural sector.
He used to go around the villages writing checks to poor farmers.
Europe and Its DiscontentsLONDON: Waves of street protests by French farmers, fishermen and truck drivers against surging fuel prices dominate television and newspapers.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, craftsmen and farmers were the main source of innovation.
With the largest population in the world, China was a leader in technological innovation and economic development throughout most of its history because it had a large pool of craftsmen and farmers.
Such an increase would affect farm-level household income, favoring some farmers while harming others.
Given the right conditions, biofuels can be an effective means to increase food security by providing poor farmers with a sustainable and affordable energy source.
The effect could be made even stronger if the additional demand for feedstock created by biofuels was met by family farmers and small-scale producers.
Poor farmers would continue to enjoy robust demand for their products even when food prices dropped, and consumers would be protected from rapid or excessive price increases.
But if we harness our collective knowledge, include developing countries’ smallholder farmers in this effort, and maintain our focus on reducing poverty and protecting the vulnerable, we can have more fuel, more food, and greater prosperity for all.
For example, they hurt industries that use steel, such as automobile producers, as well as consumers who face higher prices for finished products, not to mention farmers and others who then face retaliatory barriers to exporting their own products.
Their worthy aim is to raise the price paid to developing-country farmers for their produce by excluding the inflated profits of the middlemen on whom they depend for getting their goods to distant markets.
Third-world farmers get a boost to their income, while first-world consumers get to feel virtuous: a marriage made in heaven.
By the end of 2007, more than 600 producers’ organizations, representing 1.4 million farmers in 58 countries, were selling fair-trade products.
In Unfair Trade, a pamphlet published in 2008 by the Adam Smith Institute, Mark Sidwell argues that FAIRTRADE keeps uncompetitive farmers on the land, holding back diversification and mechanization.
This is without considering the effect that FAIRTRADE has on the poorest people in these countries – not farmers but casual laborers – who are excluded from the scheme by its expensive regulations and labor standards.
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