[Especially when, as seen on Panorama - they can sell their subsidies, which we pay for, to paper farmers!]
By Nick Mann | 5 March 2012
Policies aimed at reducing rural poverty in the developing world should focus on improving productivity in the agricultural sector, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said.
Its report says market interventions such as price guarantees and subsidies for farmers should be used as a last resort because they are ‘inefficient’ at addressing income concerns in the long term.
