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S. 2007 Farm Bill provided an opportunity to make a fundamental shift in domestic agriculture policy, which would also set the terms for world food policies. S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns. He further reiterated that essentially the “same structure” has been maintained. This signifies continued big outlays for large producers and agribusiness. 5 billion increase in direct payments to farmers. S. farmers dependent on subsidies, and thus, encourages overproduction in the face of uncertain, declining prices.
S. S. S. economic and farm bill policies. It is also vital to understand how current international trade rules thwart the goal of reducing food and fibre miles, and further squelches small-scale and “local first” principles that maintain the integrity of organic models. California’s organic cotton industry serves as a good example of why it is so critical to understand global-to-local links before any systemic change favoring local systems of food production can occur. Before NAFTA and the WTO, many California cotton farmers joined a movement to grow organic.
The ultimate sustainable agriculture solution is transition away from large industrial-based agriculture models toward smaller-scale, diverse, and organic farming. In sum, most international trade rules now favor export production and the global corporations that dominate and benefit from such a system. Agriculture should not be considered an economic sector like any other. Agriculture fulfills essential functions for the stability and security of nations: to preserve the cultural richness and multi-ethnicity of societies, to preserve biodiversity, to generate employment and sustainability, to maintain the population of rural areas, to ensure basic food security and to contribute to economic, social and political stability.