The rapid EU-wide loss of family and small-scale farms is in part due to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the EU’s agricultural Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski has said, pointing to the policy’s “errors and mistakes”.
Speaking during a recent AGRI-PETI joint committee meeting in the European Parliament, the Commissioner pointed out that between 2005 and 2014, as many as 4 million farms have disappeared in the EU, many of which were small farms.
“They were vanishing to the tune of a thousand a day,” Wojciechowski said, citing the example of his home country of Poland, which according to the latest agricultural census released this month has lost 190,000 of its farms, or 13%, in the past 10 years.
Haris grow food, yet face hunger. Why?
Activists call for ensuring peasants’ food security, empowering women workers
KARACHI:
They work hard all day in scorching heat to produce food. Yet, they survive on little. Deprived, ill-treated and downtrodden, they are your peasants and your haris.
Speakers, during a webinar organised by the Hari Welfare Association (HWA) on Saturday, in connection with the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle that is observed on April 17 every year, lamented this lack of food sovereignty among Pakistan’s peasants.
Food sovereignty is the people’s right to healthy food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and to define their own food and agricultural systems.