Traduction de «Coordination d'agriculteurs et d'éleveurs » (Français → Anglais) :

Subsistence mixed crop and livestock farmers

Crop and Livestock Drought Programs

Federation of farm unions | COAG [Abbr.]

foreman: other farming, horticultural and animal-husbandry occupations

farmer [ cultivator | holder of a farm | horticulturist | share-cropper | stock breeder | stock owner | winegrower ]

How the Law Applies to Me If--I Am a Farmer or a Rancher

Observes that agricultural investment policies mostly focus on large-scale land acquisitions and on export-oriented agriculture that is usually unrelated to local economies; notes that the development of extensive irrigation in the targeted geographical investment areas of NAFSN may reduce water availability for other users, such as small-scale farmers or pastoralists; stresses that under those circumstances the ability of mega-PPPs to contribute to poverty reduction and food security must be critically assessed and improved; empha ...[+++]sises that agricultural investment policies should be linked to and should support the development of the local economy, including smallholders and family farming; recalls that the FAO Tenure Guidelines recommend secure access to land in order to allow families to produce food for household consumption and to increase household income; stresses the need to base large-scale land-based investment in Africa on these guidelines, ensuring smallholders’ and local communities’ access to land, promoting local SME investment. and ensuring that PPPs contribute to food security and to reducing poverty and inequality.

Encouraging the use of modern technologies to support farmers on the ground and provide greater market transparency and certainty Greater attention to encourage young people to take up farming, to be coordinated with Member States' own powers in such areas as land taxation, planning and skills development Address citizens' concerns regarding sustainable agricultural production, including health, nutrition, food waste and animal welfare Seek coherent action among its policies in line with its global dimension, notably on trade, migrati ...[+++]on and sustainable development Creating an EU-level platform on risk management on how best to help farmers cope with the uncertainty of climate, market volatility and other risks

Believes that the SCI and other national and EU voluntary systems (codes of good practice, voluntary dispute settlement mechanisms) should be developed further and promoted as an addition to effective and robust enforcement mechanisms at Member State level, ensuring that complaints can be lodged anonymously and establishing dissuasive penalties, together with EU-level coordination; encourages producers and traders, including farmers’ organisations, to become involved in such initiatives; takes the view that these initiatives should be available to all suppliers who are not concerned about their anonymity, and that they may usefully evo ...[+++]lve as platforms for education and the sharing of best practices; notes that the Commission, in its recent report, states that the SCI needs to be improved, in particular to take account of confidential complaints and as regards the granting of investigatory and sanctioning powers to independent bodies.

9. Urges the Commission to re-examine the objectives of the CAP towards 2020 with a view to boosting food production, supporting small and medium-sized farmers and stockbreeders and reducing consumer prices, by strengthening the intervention mechanisms and guaranteeing adequate intervention prices that secure farm prices, which should allow a fair income for farmers and agricultural workers, and fair prices for consumers;