How best to help farmers
“Worldwide, government support given to farmers currently relies strongly on measures that are distorting and harmful to nature, the climate, nutrition, health and equity. An urgent overhaul of agricultural support policies is required to achieve healthier, more sustainable, equitable and efficient food systems.
Between 2013 and 2018, governments spent an average of nearly US$540 billion [about R8,3 trillion] a year on direct support to individual farmers, which accounted for 15% of agricultural production value.
Approximately US$245 billion [R3,7 trillion] of support for farmers was provided in the form of fiscal subsidies, most of which were linked to the production of specific commodities or the use of specific inputs
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