To give life to the Business section of our newspaper and to enrich the content, the editorial staff of the bush "has decided to resume writings of famous people is to collaborate with some important editorial in social economy and ethical finance, as the head "Values", the monthly magazine edited by Andrea Di Stefano, also with an online version, from which the next numbers will be included articles on tip.
In the month of November was held in Rome FAO summit on world hunger and we therefore considered imminent return in this issue of "the bush" a summary of an article that was published sociologist Luciano Gallino " The Republic of May 10, 2008.
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Nowadays the food crisis that is gripping dozens of countries could raise the amount of people who die of hunger than a billion. With a clarification: our half of the world does not just watch what happens. We strive to produce materials that the real scenario then the TV shows. Although various causes quotas - climate change, speculation, Chinese and Indians eating more meat, the millions of hectares not all 'power but agrofuels, etc.. - Have it to some extent aggravated hunger in the world today is not a recessionary cycle circuit-food production-consumption markets.
One might even say that for over two decades has been precisely the hunger to be produced by industrial standards by American and European policies. The decisive action, vigorously initiated since the 80's, was to destroy the emerging regional agricultural systems. Rich in biodiversity, participation of local ecosystems, easily adaptable to changes in climate, regional agricultural systems could feed better place, a much larger number of people. Should we have to develop interventions designed to increase the productivity of local crops with a choice of organic and mechanical technologies appropriate to their age-old features. Instead, the regional agricultural systems have been systematically erased from the face of the earth.
From India to Latin America, Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines, millions of hectares have been transferred in a few years from traditional intensive farming, practiced by small farms, to large corporations run by the extensive cultivation of grain . Productivity per hectare has increased by tens of times, but to a large extent, its megacorporation benefits went to the field. For their part, peasants, expelled from the fields, go to swell the immense urban slums on the planet. Or kill themselves because they can no longer pay the debts they have incurred in a desperate attempt to compete with the prices charged - seed, fertilizer, machinery - from seed corporations. E 'known that the operational arm of the dismantling of the regional agricultural systems were the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization. Last but not least, especially as regards the 'Africa is the European Commission, the Common Agricultural Policy which has helped to break the backs of millions of peasants African ensuring that European goods cost less in many areas of 'Africa, local products. All with the fervent membership of national governments, who prefer to have good relations with multinational companies that do not provide for the livelihood of rural populations. The economic principle of comparative advantage is reincarnated in complex econometric models digitized and is used today in an attempt to demonstrate that the Senegalese peasant or Indian or Filipino, should cultivate a 'single species of plant for the world market, rather than cultivate dozens species of grains and fruits that meet the needs of the local community. After the change to thousands of regional agricultural systems in varying degrees a self-sufficient agrarian megasistema global, the rest followed in a natural way. Large corporations' s Agrindustria hoarding and dosing of the main streams in order to take food prices high. Pension funds and mutual funds invest heavily in derivatives in the food sector, practicing and encouraging speculation on the upside. At the end price of the global agricultural system they pay the poor. The current food crisis is not in fact due to food shortages, it was never in the world, just as abundant. It 's a problem of access to food, in other words, poverty in the global agricultural system has immensely raised the threshold. If a group of technicians had built any artifact mechanical or electronic means so crude, perverse in its effects, expensive and vulnerable as the global agricultural system built by the U.S. and EU over the last twenty years', would be fired on the spot. The officials of international organizations that 'have built, the economists who provided the basic designs, and the politicians have laid the groundwork with laws and treaties, of course, do not run any such risk. An individual to this part of the world remains to decide what to do. It can turn off the TV, not having to cope once again, just to 'lunch hour, the tedious spectacle of skeletal children rummaging in' garbage. Or it may decide to invest a portion of his savings in shares of 'Agrindustria, as advised on dozens of web consulting company financial, because food prices will continue to grow for a long time. Finally you can write to your MP in Parliament, asking him to work to build around the peninsula, including the Alps, a forty-foot high wall to keep out hungry. If someone knows other solutions that politics, at the time, is able to offer, please let us know.
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