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  • bsf declaration 4-3-07-1.pdf - By Nitro PDF Software

    • We pledge our support for alternative agriculture and trade policies that will provide
      sustainable livelihoods for farmers in the United States and around the globe, by helping to
      ensure that global food corporations pay family farmers a fair price for their products in the
      marketplace and promote socially and environmentally sustainable farming.
    • Building Sustainable Futures for Farmers Globally campaign

      advocates a broad platform to address the overproduction and low prices that are harming
      small farmers in the U.S. and abroad
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  • The Family Farm in a Globalizing World: The Role of Crop Science in Alleviating Poverty

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    • Despite differing farm size and techniques, family management dominates farming at all levels of development. Consequently--unlike virtually any other major sector, even retailing--the economic advantages of family oversight prevail in farming across a wide range of development levels, typical farm sizes, capital/land/labor ratios, and types of product and ecology. Data strongly suggest that such farms retain competitive advantages despite market distortions, and despite some genuine and growing market handicaps as agricultural supply chains globalize and concentrate. The evolution of the family farm is thus linked to economic development
    • Feasibility depends on availability, quality, and distribution of farmland (and water); crop, land, and water science; and prospects for national and global trade and exchange, and their effects on farm sales and prices. Sufficiency depends on a corresponding rise in the poor's command over staple foods. Even large increases in staple food productivity would do little to cut mass dollar poverty if they were confined to large-scale farms, using tractors and combines but few workers, and selling at government-boosted prices that the underemployed and near-landless poor cannot afford.
  • A Response to the Global Food Prices Crisis | Grassroots International

    • The first to benefit from higher agricultural prices are the agro-industry and large retailers because they increase food prices much more than they should. Will food prices decrease when agricultural prices go down again? Large companies are able to stock large quantities of food and release them when the markets prices are high.
  • CQ Researcher Online - Entire Report

    • The farm economy is improving, but the biggest farms are still doing the best financially.
    • What is different is that technological, economic and other forces are bearing down so hard on moderate-sized farms—those that are commonly thought of as being family farms—that the powerful agrarian myth itself may be in jeopardy.
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  • Wendell Berry-Death of the American Family Farm

    • Lewontin turns away from his announced premise of scientific objectivity

      to attack, in a markedly personal way, the critics of industrial agriculture


      and biotechnology who are trying to defend small farmers against exploitation


      by global agribusiness
    • He criticizes Vandana Shiva, the Indian scientist and defender of the

      traditional agricultures of the Third World, for her appeal to "religious

      morality," and calls her a "cheerleader."
  • The Agribusiness Examiner #446 : WTO Talks Collapse

    • "The house of cards called the WTO couldn't be propped up any longer with lies by the spokespersons for the multinational corporations that benefit from its free trade agenda. The deregulation of agriculture resulting from countries bowing to the pressure of the WTO has decimated family farms and rural communities in both developed and developing countries'just the opposite of economic development,"? stated George Naylor, president of NFFC.
    • Dena Hoff, Montana farmer and NFFC Trade Chair stated, "This week's collapse at the WTO is a reflection of a global system dominated from the top down. Democracy and economic prosperity begin when farmers in every region of the world have rights to their own markets.
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  • CQ Researcher Online - Entire Report

    • Supporters say subsidies help keep farmers solvent when crops fail or prices plummet. Critics contend subsidies overwhelmingly go to large agricultural operations, interfere with the free market and encourage farmers to overproduce subsidized crops.
    • Many smaller farms are struggling to stay afloat in the face of low commodity prices, ever-increasing costs for equipment and fertilizer and steep competition from large farming operations.
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