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THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE #212 (APRIL 2008) This issue’s contents:
The
global food crisis As
the world reels with the shock of soaring food prices erupting into
food riots, questions are being raised as to how this situation came
about. Jayati Ghosh analyses the current world food crisis and
traces its origins to the neoliberal policies that have dominated economic
decision-making in the The
unacknowledged cause and unprecedented scale of the global food crisis While many possible reasons have been put forward for the present food crisis, one key factor remains largely unacknowledged - the influence of neoliberal policy ideas which look to the market as the cure-all for food-supply woes. The
origins of The
crucial factor in the current global food crisis is the dependence of
Global
hunger: let them crunch credit It is not by chance that the food crisis has occurred simultaneously with the so-called credit crunch, says Jeremy Seabrook. A
tsunami that was never silent: Commenting
on the unfolding of the food crisis in Going
hungry in the Americas The mass media portrays 'food riots' in Latin America and the Caribbean - demonstrations in the streets of Haiti, women banging on empty pots in Lima, cries for an affordable tortilla in Mexico - as ominous signs of instability. Instead, says Laura Carlsen, they should be seen as wake-up calls to fix our most vital link to each other and to life itself - the food system. 'Chickens
dying in the rice barn': The case of Indonesia The current food crisis in Indonesia is the result of the free-market economic reforms undertaken by the Indonesian government in compliance with the conditionalities imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for its 'bailout' loan in the 1997 Asian financial crisis, says Hira Jhamtani. How
to feed China Feeding the world's most populous nation is a task of mammoth proportions. In this article, Dale Jiajun Wen contrasts the successful 'food security' approach adopted by the Chinese authorities in respect of grain production with the perils which have attended the 'market-based' approach adopted in respect of soybean cultivation. GM
crops are not the answer to the world food crisis Dr. Mae-Wan Ho warns that going down the path of cultivating genetically modified crops will severely damage our chances of surviving the food crisis and global warming; organic agriculture and localised food systems are the way forward. Overhaul
of agriculture systems needed, says new international report An independent and multi-stakeholder international assessment of agriculture has concluded that a radical change is needed in agriculture policy and practice, in order to address hunger and poverty, social inequities and environmental sustainability questions.
Even
before
Cocaine
No - Coca Yes! A
recommendation by a UN body that all consumption and cultivation of
the coca plant be banned has provoked a strong response from the indigenous
peoples of
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