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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | What Happens When a Small Farmer Migrates? -Baher Kamal

What Happens When a Small Farmer Migrates? -Baher Kamal

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published Published on Oct 18, 2016   modified Modified on Oct 18, 2016
-TheWire.in

Each time a small farmer migrates to an urban area, it means one food producer less and one food consumer more.

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Now that world attention is focused on the fast growing process of urbanisation, with two in three people estimated to be living in towns and cities by the year 2030, an old “equation” jumps rapidly to mind: each time a small farmer migrates to an urban area, it equals to one food producer less and one food consumer more.

Such an equation especially impacts developing countries, where small farmers produce between 60% and 80% of all food. It also affects the living conditions in urban centres, with negative repercussions on the policies aimed at achieving the sustainability of world’s cities, which is scheduled to be top on the agenda of HABITAT III conference in Quito, Ecuador on October 17-20.

IPS interviewed Peter Wobst at the UN’s leading agency dealing with food and agriculture, to assess the impact of rural migration on food production.

“Every smallholder moving out is one producer less – that’s for sure… But the reality is complex…,” says Wobst, who is senior advisor on the strategic programme on rural poverty reduction at the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO).

According to Wobst, migration (mobility of people, largely comprising of labour mobility) is a common phenomenon that occurs during the economic and social transformation of societies/economies.

“We want this to happen for economies and regions to develop. Today, in a more integrated world economy, more than ever. And the numbers speak for themselves – one billion people not living in the communities where they were born.”

Hence, as the rural areas (including agriculture) transform, new production systems require different compositions of skills, which in turn needs to be taken into account in the relevant education systems (basic education as well as vocation training), Wobst adds.

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TheWire.in, 14 October, 2016, http://thewire.in/73073/small-farmer-migration/


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