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RE: No Farmers, No Food, No Future. Pt 1 (Ignorance & Agriculture)
On the one hand, it is important to raise awareness of the importance of farmers; on the other hand, it is also important to note that most farmers in the world are smallholders. They are not those large industrialized farmers that receive subsidies. Sadly, the importance of small farmers are not well recognized by many governments in the world. They are either marginalized in policy making or viewed as a backward social group that needs to be 'modernized'.
Not sure where you live, but here in Europe, farmers can receive a lot of subsidies (billions of EU money are pumped to them). There is also a strong push for modernisation, to stay in business (which make farmers poor, as all their profit goes into that).