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The French radical farmers union Confederation Paysanne, with its charismatic leader Jose Bove, has led the world in demonstrating the possibility of a socially progressive future for farming. Rejecting the increasing intensification and industrialisation of agriculture, the Confederation has argued for the need for local food production by small, independent farmers - both for the sake of the quality of the food we consume and to support the kind of societies we want to live in.Food for Thought demonstrates how the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy and now the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture are both designed to encourage an increasingly free-market, profit-maximising, destructive agriculture. The majority of farmers have lost out and continue to lose. Agribusiness thrives at their expense. The consequences are dire in terms of social and environmental costs in the industrialised world, and devastating for developing countries, whose ability to feed themselves is being destroyed along with a massive proportion of their small farmers.There are alternatives: to outlaw dumping of food on world markets effectively, to control the amounts of food produced, to share its production fairly among regions and countries, to encourage rather than to outlaw the use of import controls. There are farmers and other radical organisations struggling in support of these aims world wide. They are at the forefront of the struggle against free market globalisation. They hold out the possibility of a radical, human-centred way of producing our food and organising our society.
Contents
List of boxesList of abbreviationsTranslator's noteForeword by Jose BoveIntroduction1. The industrialisation of farming1962: the birth of productivismExporting and free tradeFrom stockpiling to commercial warThe logic of free tradeEurope's export vocation2. Reforming the CAP1992: the topsy-turvy CAPThe Marrakech shambles1999: From Berlin to SeattleHeadlong to disaster!3. French agricultural trade unionism: the long march of the Confederation PaysanneThe FNSEA (the National Federation of Farmers' Unions)The rumblings of oppositionThe birth of the Confederation4. Major principles for changing international policiesAn overview of the 'givens'Reaffirm food sovereigntyMake dumping illegal5. Fateful choice for the CAPA false oppositionTowards a reform of the CAP in 2003A real revolution6. Towards a solidaristic citizens' and farmers' CAPEnd the supposed export vocation of the EUSupply managementA policy founded on equitable pricesA de-intensified agricultureA genuine policy of rural developmentGiving answers to farmers while awaitingCAP reform7. Conclusion Appendix 1: l'Agriculture paysanne: a charter for small farmingAppendix 2: Campaign for an immediate change in the direction of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)Appendix 3: ResourcesAppendix 4: The 2003 reform of the CAPNotesIndex
