Agro-ecology – the next issue to take up with your MP? Those of you interested in fairness, fair trade, and feeding the world without degrading the environment might find it interesting – you can find out more at http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/agroecology.
According to Zac Goldsmith MP and contacts at Global Justice Now, it’s worth asking your MP to find out why the EU annual review on the subject is delayed and to enquire why the UK isn’t initiating its own review. Apparently, most MPs don’t know much about it but if you ask them some pertinent questions they may feel obliged to learn more – and perhaps even to take up the cause of poor farmers in developing countries, who risk getting into debt and/or losing their land and main source of food and income and becoming employees of big landowners. Small-scale farmers who currently manage to feed themselves in a reasonably sustainable way could become the recipients of aid or the refugees of the future…