Sustainable Agriculture
More than a billion people are hungry for the first time in history. Three quarters of the world’s poor and 70% of hungry people live in rural communities and it is now recognized that improving the lot of smallholder-based rural communities is essential to ending poverty and hunger.
Sustainable smallholder agriculture offers a key solution to tackling hunger, as well as addressing poverty and climate change issues. Mounting evidence shows sustainable agriculture is highly productive in poor countries and has other social and environmental benefits.
The key factor is that farmers will be able to produce from the land without damaging their prospects for doing so in the future. Sustainable agriculture aims to:
- look after the environment
- create profits from farming
- strengthen communities
Commission demonstrates leadership in the fight against hunger, follow up now crucial
Investing in smallholder farmers is the key to halving hunger
As the EU launches its rescue plan for the Millennium Development Goals in Brussels today (Wednesday 21 April) a new report reveals how investing in smallholder and women farmers is the key to halving hunger.
Farmers in Pakistan protest against Monsato's GM trials
77 million people in Pakistan are food insecure yet the government, instead of uplifting the rural poor, is offering incentives to Multinational Companies to grow genetically modified crops. This approach seeks only to increase profits for biotech companies and ignores the real causes of hunger.
Stop Undermining Small Scale Farmers
Small holder family farmers in poor countries can grow their way out of hunger – with a bit of support.
