Small farmers have the answer to feeding the world. Why isn’t the UN listening? | Elizabeth Mpofu and Henk Hobbelink

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We’re among the thousands boycotting the UN food summit – it’s been hijacked by corporate interests while the voices of small-scale farmers go unheard

” 25 years ago, at the 1996 world food summit. Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through sustainable methods and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. It is based on a model of small-scale sustainable production benefiting communities and the environment.

 

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No, they literally don't

So what happens when the population grows to the level this supports, what then? Why not instead seriously attempt to reverse population growth worldwide through education and supply of widespread birth control measures?

Because to achieve what you’re proposing there needs to be more widespread acceptance of genetically modified crops, and to do that you need big ag and science co’s onside also.

They don't listen because it's a solution and nobody these days wants to hear the solutions because there is no profit in it

they should accept less pay. liberals need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps

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