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In other words, FAIRTRADE protects farmers against their rivals and against agricultural laborers.
China has run a pilot program in which farmers had to pay extra if they pumped more than their allocation.
Even more politically difficult would be the elimination of electricity and gas subsidies, which encourage farmers to pump groundwater all day.
Farmers have the power they need, but can’t pump all day long.
Another approach could be to buy back surplus power from farmers to feed into the grid.
The additional revenue might initially come from selling small electricity surpluses to local farmers to recharge their mobile phones (thereby allowing them to work out the optimal prices for their crops), or to help them irrigate farmland using small electric pumps.
These boundaries, together with growing populations of sedentary farmers, have hemmed in pastoralist communities.
However, only 15% of the most marginal farmers (those with less than one hectare of land) have access to formal credit, so a loan waiver does little to help the poorest.
This cuts revenue for the most vulnerable farmers by 13.5%.
In Indian states where many farmers live in extreme poverty, improving the flow of crops to marketplaces is more important than waiving debt or supplying microcredit.
Currently, nearly 20% of India’s fresh produce is wasted because of storage problems, so most small farmers do not risk growing perishable crops that would yield more revenue than staples.
The reduction in wasted food, combined with encouragement to farmers to shift to higher-return crops, would generate benefits worth more than 15 times that amount.
“I have only seen US conglomerates masquerading as farmers.”
Add steep tariffs on imported manufactured goods – rammed through over the angry protests of farmers and southern planters – and you have the policies that intelligently designed much of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.
Facing elections next year, the ruling Congress Party is spending the government’s time and money on subsidies for consumers, wage hikes for state employees, and debt relief for farmers.
First, governments should help farmers (especially family farmers) become more efficient.
Each is a necessary ingredient for enabling farmers to earn a decent living.
Many governments try to improve farmers’ incomes by setting high prices domestically and erecting trade barriers to keep out imports.
The 1907 panic started in the United States, owing to a rise in interest rates as farmers in the West were paid for their crops and financial scandals in New York that seemed to implicate a large financial institution, the Knickerbocker trust.
But, with some 80 million small farms in sub-Saharan Africa producing 80% of agricultural goods, smallholder farmers have a key role to play in resolving the financial and food crises and unleashing Africa’s potential to feed itself.
It is also crucial that they continue to improve their systems to create an enabling environment for dynamic rural growth to transform subsistence farmers into entrepreneurs.
Given their central role not only as mothers and caregivers, but also as farmers, rural women hold the key to food security.
Helping Asia’s farmers cope with climate change should be a central part of this effort.
But this doesn’t have to be Asia’s future, if its farmers can adapt.
Most farmers today oversee family-run subsistence plots, and lack the money and know-how to improve productivity and crop quality.
They comprise agricultural enterprises as well as farmers, all of whom pool their resources to create economies of scale, reduce costs, and lift incomes.
This increases the supply of food and boosts farmers’ incomes, especially in places such as Bangladesh, where more than one-third of perishables spoil before ever reaching the consumer.
Cooperatives also help farmers manage the effects of climate change, by creating networks through which members can share knowledge about tricky adaptive strategies like switching from crops to fish or shrimp in saline-affected areas.
And with the extra income that cooperatives provide, farmers can buy greenhouses to prolong their production season, and shield against erratic weather.
Cooperatives also allow farmers to benefit from previously unavailable techniques such as fertigation – using irrigation to deliver liquid fertilizers.
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