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Moderated conference on rural advisory services for family farms: 1-18 December 2014

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This is Archie Cameron, again.

In reply to Harutyun Gevorgyan's message (nr. 28):

Denmark and possibly other countries in Europe had a requirement for people acquiring land for agriculture to have a "green certificate", that is having done a study about agriculture. Whether that still applies and how it was actually done, I'm not sure, however, the principal is good. Managing to achieve this type of approach in the area we are discussing is going to be the major challenge. Having said that, all efforts should be made to achieve this aim, as that is the crux of our discussion, empowering all farmers to do better and achieve sustainability, both agriculturally and financially.

Although much of our discussion is revolving round the small and often subsistence segment of agriculture (where the great majority of the world farming numbers are) many of the problems of equity and a fair return for their production is right across most farming enterprises throughout the world. It has been said that "a farmer is the only one who is at the end of the line, receives the least, has great difficulty in passing on their costs and pays the freight both ways"!!!?? It is in this arena that we are holding these discussions and we need to move forward in doing everything we can to achieve equitable outcomes for all farmers.

As we know, the world population is projected to reach 9 billion people by the year 2050; there is no more land for agriculture, in fact it is reducing through various factors of degradation and encroachments of towns, cities etc. So we all have to do better and produce more with what we have and this means lifting the productivity and sustainability of all farmers across the world, so that the world population can receive at least the basic nutritional needs to survive in a reasonable way.

Archie Cameron
43 Camerons Road
Matheson
NSW 2370 
Australia
61267336759  
e-mail: kalanga (at) activ8.net.au

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