Farmers' Views on the Future of Food and Small Scale Producers

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Published: May 2006
Reclaiming Diversity and Citizenship
ISBN: 9781843695882
Product code:14503IIED

The outcomes of an electronic conference on the ‘Future of Food and Small Scale Producers’ are presented in this report. The electronic discussion primarily involved indigenous, small and family farmers, landless and fisherfolk as well as their representative organisations. The focus was on small-scale food producers – women and men who produce and harvest field and tree crops as well as livestock, fish and other aquatic organisms. The E-Conference process was thus specifically designed to allow the excluded to voice their views, analysis and priorities on the future of food, farming, environment and human well being. Contributors were invited to describe the practice and underlying rationale of farmers and indigenous peoples’ alternatives to the modernization and industrialization of food, agriculture and land/water use. The views and analysis of small scale producers that are summarised in this report offer a deeper understanding of alternative movements in rural and urban areas. Contributors explain why keeping farmers and indigenous peoples on their land is of fundamental importance for the well being of society and nature throughout the world.

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Pimbert, M. (eds), Tran-Thanh, K. (eds), Deléage, E. (eds), Reinert, M. (eds), Trehet, C. (eds) and Bennett, E. (eds) (2006). Farmers' Views on the Future of Food and Small Scale Producers. .
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