Les pays riches s'accrochent désespérément aux subsides agricoles. Alors que l'agriculture emploie à peine 2% de la population de ces pays, on a du mal à comprendre pourquoi les contribuables devraient financer 29% en moyenne des revenus du secteur:
Government support to farmers in the so-called 'rich countries club' - the 30 who belong to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - totalled an astounding Eur 225 billion (US$283 billion) in 2005, some 29 per cent of farm income.
An OECD study on the agricultural policies of member-states shows that the most heavily protected farmers in 2005 were in Switzerland, where 68 per cent of farmers' income came in government support, Norway (64 per cent), Korea (63 per cent), Japan (56 per cent) and European Union (EU) countries (32 per cent).
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