Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, president of the Univerde Foundation and the scientific committee of Campagna Amica, from the inaugural day of the second World Farmers Market Assembly, alongside Professor Selorm Akaba, representative of Ghana’s farmers markets, and Richard McCarthy President of World Farmers Markets Coalition has renewed an appeal to support small farmers and farmers markets worldwide.
“The direct sale markets of small farmers and peasants around the world have a valuable environmental and social function. Selling local products helps small local economies, reduces climate-altering emissions, and decreases the flow of climate migrants fleeing desertification and hunger. Measures must be implemented worldwide to support farmers markets with zero taxation and tax hyper-processed products from anonymous food multinationals.
The excellent work done so far by the global coalition, which includes 70 national associations, and the commitment of President McCarthy and Director General Troccoli, allows us to relaunch the challenge of multifunctional agriculture on an international level,” declared Pecoraro Scanio, who, as Minister of Agriculture, enacted the 2001 orientation law that gave rise to multifunctional agriculture, now relaunched by the World Farmer Coalition as a useful example to help family farming, which the FAO also indicates as a model to be defended.
