Objectives, Approach, Organisation of the momagri

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Why set up a World Organization for Agriculture?

Because decisions taken by the WTO and reform of the CAP are meaningless unless there are rules:

We believe that currently used systems and decision-making tools (agricultural economic models, methods and the foundation stone of WTO negotiations), are no longer capable of dealing with the challenges that agriculture represents for the future of humanity:

And we want to make sure that the world’s agriculture tomorrow does not become concentrated in just a few geographic areas that benefit from unwarranted earnings (vast territories, a lack of welfare, contempt for the environment) that could therefore affect food security on a worldwide scale.

Should we be prepared to accept the risk that, as a result of a mishap in the climate or geopolitics, etc., we might be cut off from this supply?

This is why our movement intends:

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How to set up a World Organization for Agriculture?

This Movement, which we have called the World Organization for Agriculture (momagri) is not opposed to the WTO, nor to the CAP reforms.

momagri aspires to make certain objectives compatible which, as things stand, appear difficult to reconcile:

momagri is thus at the very heart of the challenges we face at a time when it is urgent to develop international cooperation to overcome current stumbling blocks. For this purpose:

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CAP and WTO: Agriculture at risk

The CAP and the WTO negotiations are based on the principle of free exchange and the virtues of fair competition whose contribution to collective well being is undeniable.

However, in order to benefit from these principles, international cooperation in favour of joint regulation must be set up, as agriculture is both strategic and specific.

Our societies must not forget that agriculture is a component part of independence and sovereignty which must be preserved and maintained everywhere in a world:

Europe is in the front line, with the CAP considered by some as preventing it from moving forward when in fact, the agricultural policy is the only integrated European policy. The fact that this point has been forgotten only contributed to the rejection of the constitutional treaty by France and the Netherlands.

This is why the arguments of detractors of the CAP are fallacious and can be swept away in just a few words.
Indeed:

It is therefore urgent to move away from this false vision that stigmatizes the agricultural world.

Because if other European policies were integrated, we would have the same precise figures concerning the level of public support they receive, and we would see that it is much higher than that allocated to agriculture.

And so it is not by sacrificing the CAP that we will be able to provide Europe, and its lack of political direction, with new impetus.

On the contrary, the future of Europe is dependent on a solid CAP,
its only source of nourishment today.

Indeed, what would happen if the break up of the CAP and the liberalization of international agricultural markets were to continue without any rules?

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The risk: profound destabilization on a planetary scale

…...for Less Developed Countries (LDCs)

No country can hope for economic development without prior growth of the agricultural sector.

…...for Europe

Europe is in the process of abandoning the only policy used in its own construction.

And even for the United States, with its system of guaranteed revenues for farmers, will not be able to protect them in the long term (costs, WTO rules).

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The international community must acknowledge and act...

Because agricultural exchanges, the subject of WTO negotiations:

Since the existence of a balanced CAP is the basic condition for any exchange regulation system.

Indeed Europe is a privileged partner of developing countries through the preferential agreements it has signed: exchanges between Europe and developing countries in the agricultural sector are more than three times greater than those that exist between the United States and developing countries.

THUS

Yet, these collective costs have not even been measured, despite the fact we know the causes that engender them and the resulting consequences:

Causes: Drift towards an agricultural world without regulation		Consequences: Resulting collective costs
Continual drop in market prices and farmers' revenue:		Unemployment, crops abandoned countryside deserted
New control mechanisms and regulatory context growing more and more complex:		Bureaucratic impact and heavy psychological consequences
Modification of production habits and New obligations:		Loss of competitiveness and less capacity to adapt
Weakening of the rural fabric and supply chains:		Disappearance of production sectors and negative effects on land management and the environment
Weakening of supply security: dependence		Strategic impact of outside

It is therefore urgent to face up to these challenges, the real challenges of the 21st century, and create the conditions for the world regulation of agricultural markets.

It is for this reason we have decided to launch the World Organization for Agriculture to which France and Europe must give impetus.

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momagri’s mission

This movement is no more than our duty to ensure food security for all peoples, a precondition for a good balance and peace in the world in order to:

In order to reach these objectives, it is vital and urgent to build a regulation model for the world’s agriculture in order to replace the existing models, upon which, for several decades, national and international decisions have been made, as they are extremely unsatisfactory, false in their conclusions and dangerous in the use that is made of them.

Just one example is enough to illustrate this situation:

The model of the World Bank states that the total liberalization of agricultural markets would lead to a gain for everyone in the world of more than 350 billion dollars (which is less than 0.8% of the world’s GDP!), including 240 billion dollars for the developing countries. This sum has recently been revised by economists (by varying certain hypotheses) and this gives results which are even lower, some 25 billion dollars per year for developing countries, which makes $1 per person per year!

But this is false: preferential agreements are not taken into account and several developing countries are getting deeper into poverty through agricultural emigration that is continually fired by the extreme misery of the countryside.

THUS

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momagri’s approach

It is therefore time to mobilize all those who believe that a different organization of the world’s agriculture is possible, that is both innovative and maintains cultural traditions.

It is for this reason that we are creating the World Organization for Agriculture (momagri), which will involve all those who wish to work with the farming community in order to:

The momagri will define New Agricultural Regulations (NAR) based on:

The Movement in favour of Organisation for the World’s Agriculture:

Will mobilize renowned figures from the farming community, the main production chains and the agri-food industries.

Will associate non-agricultural representatives (scientists, NGOs, humanists) capable of broadening the field of reflection and integrating the Movement’s ideas and proposals in their words and actions.

Will draw upon a core of experts comprising economists with a worldwide reputation that will develop the NAR model so that if becomes an unchallengeable reference on an international scale.

Will set up procedures for alert, evaluation and recommendations which:

The Organization of momagri

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The momagri Model

This model will provide a better picture of the real situation and facilitate the running of international negotiations on a more credible basis, guaranteeing more harmonious development of agricultural systems throughout the world.

The choice we have made to meet these requirements is that of a systemic approach and a model of the game theory built around three essential dimensions for the agricultural sector:

The Game Theory is the strategic discipline which modelises a sector or a complex situation, which is not cut off from the rest of the economy but takes into consideration interactions which exist with its environment.

Like the human body, where standard models consider human organs to be independent of each other, and are therefore concerned about only one organ when giving their diagnosis, a game theory model on the contrary will take into account all the organs and the way in which they interact. We therefore produce a final diagnosis which is far more complete and apt to describe agricultural reality.

The interest in using such an approach to modelise agricultural realities is triple-fold. It will in fact:

> take into account all agricultural specifities, by integrating other sectors which interact with the agricultural sector, such as energy, transport, environmental standards, phytosanitary rules, taxation …
> realise the strategic importance of agriculture by placing it at the crossroads of strategic stakes such as the environment, energy, food security and the fight against poverty, which current models are incapable of doing.
> give a model to political decision-makers which can be used as a new reference for international negotiations, which will enable them to give satisfactory answers to fundamental questions such as:
• knowing if liberalisation is necessary, when and how,
• where to situate trade as a role of supply security and food sovereignty
• how to set up a policy of liberalisation which will result in a stable and durable situation (WTO’s objective) required by all regions in the world (because measuring the impact of liberalisation is one thing, but studying the sharing-out of rewards which result from it, is another),
> defining the principles of world governance of agriculture.

(cf. momagri’s report “International agricultural models on the test bench”)

The conceptual architecture of the momagri model

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The NAR Agency

The NAR agency will comprise a network of experts from all over the world which, like financial ratings, social, environmental or ethical agencies will develop a methodology based on a multidisciplinary model developing an awareness with public authorities and the general public on the dangers and speculative excesses of agricultural markets.
It will also release opinions and figures that could call into question the credibility of certain decisions and the relevance of certain political or organizational choices.

Organization of the NAR Agency