Strenghthening family farms in Mercosur | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
juin 2014
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
Rural21-Vol:48-Nr:2/2014-Article:4
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For a long time, the agricultural policies of the Mercosur states ignored family farming, focusing on promoting individual crops and export production instead. Rural development was not on the agenda. Only after the turn of the millennium did a process of rethinking set in.

Auteurs et éditeurs

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Álvaro Ramos Trigo

Corporate Author(s): 

PROGRAMA FIDA-MERCOSUR “Diálogo sobre políticas públicas en el ámbito de la agricultura familiar y la seguridad alimentaria en el Cono Sur de América Latina”

En 1997, en el seminario “Combate a la pobreza con reglas de mercado en el contexto del Mercosur” surgió la recomendación de crear una unidad que apoyase la definición y coordinación de estrategias políticas para combatir la pobreza rural.

Publisher(s): 

DLG-Verlag was founded in 1952 as a subsidiary of DLG e.V. (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft - German Agricultural Society) with its headquarter in Frankfurt/ Germany. The publishing company provides expertise for the agricultural and food sector.

With its subsidiaries Max-Eyth-Verlag and DLG-Agrofood Medien GmbH the DLG-Verlag offers books and magazines, as well as catalogs of the DLG's international DLG exhibitions.

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Rural21 (Rural21)

The international journal Rural 21 has dedicated more than 40 years to all topics surrounding rural development. Its ambition is to further those strategies and policies that strengthen rural areas of developing and newly industrialising countries and encourage their implementation. The journal addresses the complete range of relevant themes – from agriculture and fisheries via capacity building and education through to health and social security, energy supply and trade.

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