GENEVA-(Reuters)--Farmers from Europe, Africa, Asia and Canada warned the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday that a trade deal being negotiated this week could ruin small farmers, harm the environment and increase hunger.
On the second day of a week of crunch talks seeking a breakthrough to rescue the 'Doha' trade liberalization round, groups representing small-scale farmers told WTO chief Pascal Lamy the proposals were dangerous and unacceptable.
"Further trade liberalization will benefit large-scale corporate farming and multinational traders at the expense of small-scale, vulnerable farmers, hindering agricultural and rural development in countries which need it most," the farm groups said in a joint declaration handed to Lamy.
The Doha round aims, among other things, to open markets for farm exports from developing countries and limit the huge subsidies paid to farmers in Europe and North America which skew the market against agriculture in the developing world.
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