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"The agricultural situation and the problems facing the rural world cannot be dissociated from the system’s profound crisis or from current policy, for example the common agriculture policy (CAP), which bears the majority of the responsibility for the continued decline of agriculture in some Member States: everything is oriented toward the interests of large-scale farmers and northern European agro-industry, destroying family agriculture and compromising the viability of small and medium-sized farms.
The role of women in agriculture and the development of rural areas is extremely important, as they represent around 42% of agricultural workers, are a cornerstone of keeping farms going, and ensure that desertification in rural areas is effectively combated.
Despite lacking any realistic critique of the CAP, the report adopted is generally positive in its approach and how it acknowledges the role of women. It says that the ‘promotion of gender equality is a core objective of the EU and its Member States’ along with the creation of better living conditions in rural areas, and the countering of the desertification phenomenon, for which the defence of ‘good transport infrastructure’ and the improvement of ‘access to transport for all’ with a view to combating ‘social exclusion and inequality in society, primarily affecting women’ is essential."@en1
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