Consider the following:
* Over 3/4 of people living on less than $1 per day are small farmers (around 900 million people worldwide). The majority of small farmers are women;
* The average European subsidy per cow is $2 per day – billions of people in the world barely subsist on less than this amount;
* Agricultural subsidies in developed countries exceed the total income of sub-Saharan Africa.
Heavily subsidized agricultural products are taking away the livelihoods of millions of female small farmers. Moreover, the WTO Agreement on Agriculture does not guarantee food sovereignty.
At the fifth WTO Ministerial we demand:
* No new issues!
* Democratic governance, transparency and accountability!
* Human development and gender equality-oriented agendas!
* Human development and human rights as the central guiding principles!