الأحد، يناير 16، 2011

In Corrupt Global Food System, Farmland Is the New Gold

"High food prices are caused by market speculation in a corrupt global food system. Growing concern over access to food creates a new geopolitics around food security, with many countries buying farmland and banning food exports. One billion people cannot afford to buy enough to feed themselves and their families. Seventy percent of those hungry people are farmers, herders and other food producers who could feed themselves if they had access to land and markets. In recent months the world's largest agricultural commodities trader, Cargill (based in the US), announced a tripling of profits." (IPS)



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