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Investing in smallholder farmers to feed the future

Investing in smallholder farmers to feed the future | Questions de développement ... | Scoop.it

Family farmers are often underserved investors. Just like other commercial entities, they need the right policies, laws and processes in place to encourage and expand their investments in food production.

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Majority of EU countries in favour of GMO compromise

Majority of EU countries in favour of GMO compromise | Questions de développement ... | Scoop.it

A majority of EU member countries backed a compromise agreement on GMO authorisation which maintains an EU-wide approval scheme but allows national cultivation bans.

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Agriculture and nutrition: you are what you sow

Agriculture and nutrition: you are what you sow | Questions de développement ... | Scoop.it
As governments face up to food security challenges by focusing on production, they must learn that not all agricultural policies are nutrition-enhancing, says Jeff Waage
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Family farming in Brazil: from concept to policy

It is true that Brazil is one of the few countries in the world to have a legal definition of what a “family farm” is, it is the only one to have a distinct Ministry for Agrarian development with a department dedicated to family farming, and an agricultural policy with several measures specifically dedicated to family farms such as the widely known PRONAF (Program to Strengthen Family Farming).

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We deserve more than this bad Farm Bill

We deserve more than this bad Farm Bill | Questions de développement ... | Scoop.it

Was it just exhaustion from two-plus years of negotiations that finally produced the Farm Bill that is expected to be signed by the President this week? Or, was it the sense that “it could have been a lot worse” when compared with a mean-spirited, destructive Farm Bill passed by the House of Representatives last year.

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