On December 16, 2009, Ileia’s Farming Matters Editorial Team launched a very interesting debate on THE FUTURE OF FAMILY FARMING :
“Family farmers traditionally care for their farm, and grow crops for home consumption. But can family farming produce enough food for the growing world population? And can it compete with large-scale industrial agriculture?
Read two views in Farming Matters magazine, Volume 25 – Number 4 – Scaling up and sustaining the gains (page 20-21).
• Rudy Rabbinge (Professor of Sustainable Development and Food Security, Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlans) argues that small-scale farming should not be romanticised. In order to get out of poverty, family farming needs to modernise.
• Fabio Kessler Dal Soglio (Professor of Rural Development at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) argues that science has resulted in unsustainable agriculture and poverty. Family farming has the key to a sustainable future.
What is your view?”
——————–
Go to :
http://www.leisa.info/phorum-3.4.8a/read.php?f=1&i=2646&t=2646
for a series of interesting contributions to this debate.
