Why agricultural investment ‘principles’ must be buried
- Pambazuka
- 06 February 2014
The FAO draft principles have little local basis and less community future, and are very likely to be employed to obscure the power imbalances that exist.
The FAO draft principles have little local basis and less community future, and are very likely to be employed to obscure the power imbalances that exist.
Let us focus on the real issue that our legislators should be grasping: how do we keep farmers operating and attract farmers to own the land they work, and not become peasants on land rented from institutional investors, domestic or foreign.
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