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WTO: Farmers worldwide must not be sacrificed in the name of free trade!

Date

22 Jul 2008

Sections

Trade & Society
Sustainable Dev.
Agriculture & Food

Representatives of farmers worldwide today presented the Director General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, with a joint declaration, in which they state their opposition to the current proposal on agriculture, which serves but a few industrial agricultural exporters and which will drive a large number of farming families to ruin. And yet these farming families are the core providers of food to local communities.