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Mon Aug 17, 2009 at 10:29:20 AM PDT
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Kudos to OurFuture.org for saying what I've been saying for a while about the rich countries' plan to bring food to poor countries. On the G8's promise to give $20 billion for agriculture in the developing world, they say:
What is being pitched as a new agricultural revolution under these forms of investment will look very much like the colonial model of exploitation with the exception that the output will meet commodity demand in high growth countries versus demand in the colonizing nation.
A well coordinated strategy would use the WTO, not to police nations to reduce barriers to trade uniformly, but to coordinate international agricultural policy to ensure food security for all, particularly ensuring short-term efforts to address food security by dumping excess commodities on low income country markets do not crowd out domestic production of agricultural crops in the medium to long-term.
Why aren't we seeing true change in global policies to ensure food security for all? I did a recent follow the money piece on Alternet asking just that. Our global food security policy seems to be entirely driven by the interests of our largest multinational corporations, plain and simple. |
| Jill Richardson :: Food Security for All? Not So Much |
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