Ag groups call on COP 29 to recognise the essential role of farming

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A GROUP of agricultural organisations from throughout the globe, together with the Nationwide Farmers’ Federation, are calling on international leaders to recognise the important function of farming in efforts to mitigate local weather change.

The Cairns Group of Farm Leaders (CGFL) symbolize farmers that develop and produce over one third of the world’s agricultural exports.

Forward of this week’s Convention of Events in Azerbaijan the farming teams issued the next assertion:

It’s our imaginative and prescient to create a world with an equitable and enforceable rules-based buying and selling system in agriculture. We wish to create the chance for our farmers to profit from contributing to a sustainable agriculture sector together with through the socio-economic growth of our nations.

The CGFL strongly help the Cairns Group Assertion on “The Contribution of the Multilateral Buying and selling System to Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture and Meals Techniques”.

CGFL reaffirm dedication to farmer-led local weather motion at COP29

CGFL acknowledge the necessity for pressing motion to satisfy the targets of the Paris Settlement on Local weather Change, the distinctive potential for the agricultural sector to satisfy international ambitions on addressing local weather change and the particular vulnerability of the sector to the results of local weather change.

CGFL name on the Events to the UNFCCC to:

Recognise the important thing function performed by farmers in guaranteeing sustainable land administration, the implementation of nature-based options to deal with local weather change, and the additional enchancment of the sustainability of agri-food techniques.

Recognise the proactive agricultural practices applied by farmers the world over, investing personal assets to satisfy sustainable agricultural manufacturing and round financial system enterprise fashions to provide meals and fibre. These practices have a constructive impression on carbon sequestration, biodiversity, water administration, soil well being, and different environmental outcomes.

Be sure that local weather coverage stays in keeping with Article 2 of the Paris Settlement by “Growing the power to adapt to the adversarial impacts of local weather change and foster local weather resilience and low greenhouse gasoline emissions growth, in a way that doesn’t threaten meals manufacturing”.

Guarantee due consideration of the necessity to guarantee meals safety, accessibility, manufacturing, and the livelihoods of farmers in creating coverage responses to local weather change, noting the necessity for international motion on reaching the Sustainable Growth Objectives 1 and a couple of of ending poverty and starvation.

Promote the suitable use of multilateral boards together with the Meals and Agriculture Group (FAO) and the World Commerce Group (WTO) to additional speed up the transition to resilient agri-food techniques and to additional enhance the productiveness and sustainability of agri-food techniques and guarantee enough session and participation of nations and teams affected.

Recognise the function of worldwide agricultural commerce, innovation, and expertise in reaching local weather and meals safety ambitions by constructing worth chains that result in extra environment friendly use of assets globally.

Recognise that the duty of additional enhancing the sustainability of agri-food techniques globally have to be economically viable and a shared duty throughout the worth chain.

Recognise the necessity to meet the obligations of the Paris Settlement, together with by selling the operationalisation of Article 6, together with objects 6.2 and 6.4, for regulation of the carbon credit score market.

CGFL underline requires consideration of sustainability associated commerce insurance policies.

Extra broadly, CGFL are very involved on the rising prevalence of sustainability and local weather change measures getting used to create additional obstacles to freer and fairer worldwide agricultural commerce.

Inside this altering worldwide agricultural buying and selling system, CGFL:

Word the rising prevalence of sustainability and local weather measures in commerce discussions and underline that insurance policies to advertise sustainable agri-food techniques shouldn’t be designed or used for protectionist functions;

Recognise that imposing sustainability circumstances on commerce and market entry lack understanding and appreciation of distinctive native agricultural contexts, together with geographic, environmental, cultural, and socio-economic. There isn’t any ‘one measurement suits all method’ to sustainability;

Spotlight that worldwide commerce is critically vital to agricultural producers and the adoption of additional agriculture liberalisation has the potential to contribute to the options to many of those international issues;

Keep that worldwide and home efforts on sustainability and local weather motion be risk-, science-, and evidence-based, in step with worldwide agreements and WTO disciplines, and shall not unnecessarily hinder the essential function worldwide commerce in agriculture performs in reaching international meals safety;

Promote the constructive atmosphere and local weather co-benefits that may outcome from open commerce enabling every nation to completely develop their comparative benefit;

Keep that the additional enchancment of the sustainability and resilience of agri-food techniques have to be outcomes-based;

Recognise that the online impacts of some varieties of agricultural subsidies on GHG emissions might be dangerous to the atmosphere and human well being;

Search assurance that non-tariff obstacles which can’t be justified by reference to evidence-based exceptions recognised by the WTO, don’t impede or distort commerce or the manufacturing of agricultural items, together with the appliance of carbon border adjustment mechanisms that aren’t utilized equitably;

Reaffirm their help to redouble efforts to scale back trade- and production-distorting home help measures, supporting the Cairns Group’s proposal to cap and scale back such help entitlements considerably and considerably;

Reaffirm help to develop a tangible pathway and workplan to restrict using ‘blue and amber field’ helps and evaluate the idea of ‘inexperienced field’ helps to make sure minimal impression on commerce and manufacturing;

Recognise that the controversy on meals techniques transition wants to contemplate the whole meals chain, from farm to desk. It’s not right to deal with meals techniques by trying solely at agricultural techniques, directing disproportionate obligations to the first manufacturing sector;

Recognise the significance of commitments supplied within the Paris Settlement to making sure the implementation and effectiveness of local weather actions by and on agriculture in developed and creating nations; and

Recognise that initiatives to a simply transition should be tailored to nationwide circumstances, making an allowance for totally different manufacturing techniques and their particularities, highlighting the local weather and environmental advantages related to agriculture and meals techniques, in step with the UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Meals Techniques and Local weather Motion.

Cairns Group of Farm Leaders – Member Organisations

· Sociedad Rural Argentina

· Australian Nationwide Farmers’ Federation

· Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock

· Canadian Federation of Agriculture

· Canadian Agrifood Commerce Alliance

· Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura Chile

· Sociedad de Agricultores de Colombia

· Cámara Nacional de Agricultura y Agroindustria

· Camara del Agro Guatemala

· Agexport Guatemala

· Indonesian Farmers’ Affiliation