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"Madam President, the fundamental reason for the volatility in agricultural markets is the globalisation of our food supply, and allowing speculation on world commodity markets to dictate prices to the detriment of the primary producer. Using financial instruments in CAP for managing price risks, rather than reducing and addressing the causes of price volatility, ignores the reality. The financialisation of our food supply, where you have highly organised financial institutions with access to information exerting control over fragmented producers, the level of support they get and therefore food supply, is another step along the road of locking farmers into a treadmill of debt and below—cost production. It is the normalisation of a form of slavery for the farmers.
Farmers themselves have to realise that the best long-term solution to price volatility would be product diversification, and for them to focus on what the market required and not to buy into the spin of the vested interests and to engage in a race to the bottom for the benefits of multinationals. Trade agreements such as CETA, TTIP and Mercosur further increase problems by exposing farmers on both sides of the Atlantic to increased pressures that they simply cannot bear. When we hear of the positives, we hear about positives for the agri-food industry. This does not necessarily mean positives for the farmer. Whether these trade agreements will bring difficulties in a financial sense or in a mental health sense because of extra competition, it is not going to be worth it. On basic income we need that, not just in farming but in a lot of different sectors. Mechanisation will make sure of that."@en1
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