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Draft Declaration of Food Sovereignty for the Japanese Farmers and Consumers

Since WTO Agreement of Agriculture (AoA) was appeared, it has been 11 years. In this period, the Japanese farmers and consumers have faced on the increase of import of agricultural products, sharp fall the prices and a massive reduction of rice acreage that have never experienced. Great anxiety among people has widely spread toward food safety caused by flooding imported food poisoned by post harvest agricultural chemicals and genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

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