European Coordination Via Campesina

Trade unions and professional associations

Our priorities for a fair, sustainable and legitimate agriculture policy

- We need a public policy, an European agriculture policy defined by the Europeans, not by the WTO.
- Priority should be given to agricultural and rural employment. We say no farmer’s disappearance.
- The rights of women farmers should be recognised.
- Access to land, water, seeds, and credit should become a right: that includes farmers’ rights to save their seeds and to improve plant varieties.
- the setting up of young farmers has to be promoted.
- Farmers’ income should come first from selling their products. For farm prices reflecting the real value of the products, the two following conditions are necessarfy:
o Supply management instruments should be implemented, to avoid surpluses or shortages.
o Any dumping at export (at prices below the production costs) must be forbidden, and in exchange for this duty, the EU and other countries have the right to protect themselves from imports at t (...)

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