Food sovereignty for sale: supermarkets are undermining people’s control over food and farming in Asia
▻http://www.grain.org/article/entries/5010-food-sovereignty-for-sale-supermarkets-are-undermining-people-s-control-
The mall will almost certainly be occupied by retailers like the transnational giant Metro, which has already opened a wholesale market a few hundred metres away. It would be part of a major shift in the production, distribution and sale of food in India and across Asia that is having a major impact on the region’s small scale traders and processors, its fresh markets and street vendors.
In the past decade or so, food corporations have been taking over a bigger and bigger slice of the pie, with major implications for the entire food chain. Corporate supermarkets are expanding faster in Asia than anywhere else on the planet. And as supermarkets and their procurement chains expand, they take revenue out of traditional food systems – and out of the hands of peasants, small scale food producers and traders. They also exert increasing influence over what people eat and how that food is produced.
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