Brussels, 07/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Coordination Via Campesina, which held its General Assembly on 3-4 March in Evenstad (Norway), has launched an appeal to the governments and European institutions to commit to a programme of seven measures which will make it possible to maintain small-scale family farming in Europe, given that "the crisis has made investments in the agricultural sector more attractive and led to an increased concentration of land, large-scale monocultures and the development of factory livestock farming, to the detriment of small producers". Among the main demands of the farmers' movement: stopping negotiations for a free-trade agreement with the United States, making use of the most recent arbitrations of the reform of the CAP (common agriculture policy) to favour small producers, recognising the rights of producers to produce, reproduce and sell their seeds, and promoting local production and short circuits. (LC)