2 - Go global Stay Local
International trade is evolve quite fast. Products from different part of the world are found everywhere. Farmers are guaranteed to get the benefits from the globalisation and free trade on their productions and can be sold on the global market competitively. However, the impact of the free trade shows that most of the small scale farmers can not really compete on this globalisation market.
The price policies, price reduction and growing costs are forcing farmers to sell their products below their average price. Somehow, the trade and globalisation is becoming a part of much broader process of cultural globalisation.
Globalisation can contribute to the loss of the traditional values and knowledge, dissintegration of communities as well as degradation of environment. To face the competition that raise due to the globalisation, framers should desire to return to their community based on endogenous development.
They are recreating their local economies by building on indigenous culture, values, knowledge, institutions and organic agriculture or LEISA. These farmers produce mainly for self sufficiency, but still able to maintain income from surplus sales on the regional market and from eco-tourism.
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