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Christophe Alliot concluded : "there is money for everybody in the system, farmers are only a tiny part of it, but at the moment, all of the money is going to big actors, with demonstrated negative impacts on society".
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"These negative impacts costs us a lot in public money, meaning that taxpayer money is used both to directly support these big actors and to compensate the negative impacts that their practices have created"
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He concluded that, "today, with the revision of the UTP Directive and the next CAP, we have an opportunity to address this, to make sure that farmers are not paid below the production costs."
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"If we continue to deregulate markets, we will end up with prices that are absolutely disconnected from production costs. The big winners of this deregulation are intermediate operators, while farmers and consumers are the losers"
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See ECVC's full position on the Action Plan: tinyurl.com/693wy5bn
See ECVC's reaction to the Vision on Agriculture and Food: tinyurl.com/2vr7n572
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We have to discuss the definition of an active farmer because multibillion-euro consortia are not the ones who need protection, but rather the new generation
of farmers, small and family farmers and mixed farmers.” 2/2 #marketregulation #faripricesforfarmers
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A lot of work needs to be done to eliminate the risks and contradictions of the Vision and to genuinely answer small and medium-scale farmers demands, especially to foster Generational Renewal.
👉Read ECVC full press release: tinyurl.com/3wzjtzr8
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Thanks to @oxfambxl.bsky.social and @fairtradeftao.bsky.social for allowing them to speak up for farmers, urgently in need of fair prices for their work.
And thanks to @greens-efa.eu and @socialistsanddemocrats.eu for hosting the event in the @europarl.europa.eu.
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Support is growing all across Europe to implement this proposal in the UTP directive with a fast-track procedure as ECVC recalls in our last press release: tinyurl.com/383pkz5m