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Farmers

For several years, small-scale farmers have mobilized themselves to exchange, think together, formulate strategies and elements for local, national or international proposals on different major challenges: land reform, agriculture and the environment, biodiversity, GMOs, role of farmers and indigenous organizations, regional integration, food security, WTO and market regulation.

They have done it within the Family Farming, societies and Globalization program (APM), but also within national and international farmers organizations they have built.

Below is the list of all the workgroup's referred Web sites
Food security and agricultural production: is there really a link? :: CIRAD :: 2 September 2008 CIRAD is organizing a day of talks and debates on 4 September 2008, on the links between food security and agricultural production. It will be held at Agropolis International in Montpellier.	BIO-IPR Resource Pointer :: GRAIN :: 29 August 2008 News, publications and links from the BIO-IPR email list

Workgroup data
Proposal’s Paper (Agriculture and Sustainable Development).	Proposal’s Paper (Land Policies and Land Reform).
Documents	Participants and Interested Persons

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When Peruvian Farmers Take the Initiative: The Project to Divert the Water of the River Arma
:: Jean-Christophe CARRAU :: September 1995 ::

Faced with the need to renew the means to irrigate their land, Peruvian farmers took the initiative to implement a river diversion project. The government, which refused to take on this type of work, seeing that the initiative was a success, took over the development project by calling for financial and technical support, but to the detriment of the social ideal of fair distribution of irrigated land which inspired the project in the first place. Along the river Arma, the microphone-area of Condesuyos, covers a zone of desert top-plates and mountains where the majority of the Indians (...)

Toughts on Social and Solidarity Economy from the point of view of the Tradicional Agriculture and its Organisations
:: Jacques Berthomé :: October 2005 ::

Concept paper written for the WSSE Dakar, Senegal meeting (Nov 19-21, 2005). A deliberation on the future of peasant farmers in the South. Globalization means that we are currently seeing a formidable change in the economy and society, leading us to unknown shores. The machinery has been set in motion, it is illusory to believe that we can stop it or return to the past (and to what sort of past: development in a single country? State-controlled socialism?). Particularly in the poorest countries (those with the least diversified economy where 70 to 90% of the population lives off (...)

World Forum on Food Sovereignty
:: Pierre William Johnson :: Pierre Vuarin :: September 2001 ::

The FAO is beginning to put together an appraisal of the last five years for the next international meeting, taking place in November. Today, it has been estimated that the commitments made at the last World Food Summit, held in Rome in 1996, for a fifty percent reduction by 2015 in the number of people permanently suffering from famine, will not be achieved, and already 2030 is being spoken of as the horizon for such an objective. Furthermore, food continues to be used as a political and (...)

The European rural world and sustainability
:: Mathieu Calame :: Philippe Cacciabue :: September 2000 ::

During the Valencia encounter in May 1999 on the European rural world and sustainability, the participants defined 5 axis of reflection : 1) the new contracts between agriculture and society ; 2) the alimentation, the quality and health ; 3) the sustainable production systems ; 4) Europe and other part of the world ; 5) Citizenship, power and democracy. For each of these topics, the authors have exposed in this article the problematic and raised the key questions for the debate. The majority of the European Agricultural policies were conceived in a period of time where the European (...)

Restoring the Terraces in Saba
:: Larbi Bouguerra :: February 1992 ::

The inhabitants of the mountains of Yemen have an age-old tradition of managing water for irrigation, in particular through a system of terraces that distribute rainwater. To stop the slow erosion of these terraces, UN experts have set up a dialog with the local farmers in view of developing simple restoration methods. The mountains of Yemen culminate at 3.300 m and it rains there sufficiently, rare thing on the Arabic peninsula, to allow cultures thanks to the irrigation. The Yemenis have elaborate networks of terraces which distribute precipitations correctly and preserve the ground. (...)

Agriculture at any price? Saudi Arabia privileges agriculture to the detriment of its water reserves
:: Angélique KHALED :: October 1995 ::

Benefiting from its oil revenues, Saudi Arabia has developed irrigated wheat farming on an industrial scale which, although producing good quality wheat, threatens to exhaust the country's water reserves, without going beyond the artificial nature of the project. In the Arabic peninsula, the repercussions of the incomes of oil after the crisis of 1973 made it possible to make agricultural development a priority. One passed from a food agriculture organized around the oases, with a very moderate exploitation of the ground water, to an industrial agriculture with enormous financial and (...)

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations CIRAD CERAI Center for Rural Studies and International Agriculture GRAIN 4 Web sites: + details