Constitutional Charter for Rural Reform

1. Agricultural activities must be given the highest and most dignified attention by the State given that, through them, farmers guarantee basic needs which are essential for the Development of Peoples.
2. For this reason, the productive activity of farmers must be guaranteed and protected by the laws of the State from the dynamics of finance and markets. To this end, not only the farmer but his whole nuclear family should be subject to better legislative and fiscal norms that guarantee them a satisfactory territorial presence.
3. Agricultural activities must be characterized by respect for the Health of People and of the Environment, guaranteeing the fertility of the land and the salubriousness of the alimentary products, favouring to this end the use of suitable techniques.
4. The environmental and genetic patrimonies are assets to which the public has a right; we commit ourselves therefore to promoting every action aimed at the adoption of provisions that protect and guarantee local variety, production and typicality and their traceability.
5. We ask to rediscover the knowledge of Tradition, Research and Technique in order to promote a new production culture and social and environmental sustainability; to this end we will sustain every action aimed at the growth of new agricultural generations and assistance with agricultural production.
6. We will adopt every initiative useful for the protection of Rural Territories – a World Heritage- from the interests of local public and private administrations. The rights and norms that regulate the hereditary institution and the constitution of businesses will also have to be revised.
7. The use of Finance and Farm Loans for agricultural activities cannot be considered in the same way as they are for other productive activities given that agriculture is fundamental and a safeguard for society and the environment.
8. The setting of agricultural prices must be subject to State control. The State will regulate the values added and the increases so as to contain disproportions and speculations.
9. Due to their particular nature, in accordance with the laws and the norms of the state, farmers must be guaranteed the utmost presence in companies and in the workplace, derogating to the administrative systems the formulation of the opportune solutions, responsibilities and authoritative acts.
10. Commercial exchanges, especially in the agroalimentary sector, must be subject to a system of norms that regulate their flow in the presence of actual local deficits, and, in any case, always and only in relation to a proven correspondence with high qualitative standards: ethical, ecological and sanitary.

Guido Bissanti