July, 2006
NFFC Welcomes WTO Doha Round Collapse
“The house of cards called the WTO couldn't be propped up any longer with lies by the spokespersons for the multinational corporations that benefit from its free trade agenda. The deregulation of agriculture resulting from countries bowing to the pressure of the WTO has decimated family farms and rural communities in both developed and developing countries—just the opposite of economic development,” stated George Naylor, president of NFFC.
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Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Via Campesina:
The WTO failure in Geneva brings hope to farmers worldwide
December, 2005
U.S. Farmers attend WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong
Three U.S. farmers representing the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) and a representative from the Border Agriculture Workers join their fellow farmers and farmworkers from around the world in Hong Kong December 13-18 to protest the current direction of agricultural policy dictated by the World Trade Organization (WTO). WTO's “liberalization” of agricultural trade has resulted in a world-wide rural depression with millions of farmers and peasants forced to leave their communities in search of new livelihoods.
NFFC's views on the WTO and the U.S. government's trade proposal can be found in the following: Farmers in the U.S. and Around the World Lose Under WTO by George Naylor.
To receive updated reports from the U.S. farmers-farmworkers while in Hong Kong, please contact Kathy Ozer at kozer@nffc.net or call (202) 543-5675.
Geneva – In late July, the World Trade Organisation’s
(WTO) General Council met in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the
latest round of negotiations in preparation for the upcoming full
Ministerial in Hong Kong in December 2005. One of the week’s
main topics in negotiations includes the Agreement on Agriculture
(AoA), which would impact farmers, agricultural labour and consumers
around the world.
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Creating Crisis
The governments of both developed and developing
countries face the choice of sacrificing the rights of the majority
of their populations to food sovereignty and decent employment
in return for increased corporate access to international markets.
As agriculture negotiations in the World Trade Organisation (WTO)
continue, government negotiators are being pressured to cede the
ability of local and national governments to democratically establish
their own policies to feed their people and support their farmers
in return for increased access to international markets for their
main exporters.
The WTO must get out of agriculture to ensure people’s
food sovereignty throughout the world, as the WTO is the antithesis
of the idea of sovereign peoples making their own decisions about
food.
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