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odilon @odilon CC BY-NC-ND 7/06/2012 09:47

On Aid, Obama Sells Out Poor Countries to Big Ag
http://www.globalpolicy.org/home/217-hunger/51678-on-aid-obama-sells-out-poor-countries-to-big-ag.html
Giant agribusinesses such as Cargill, Monsanto and Yara take the center in “The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition,” a new food-aid effort for Africa launched at the recent G-8 summit in May. These companies have pledged $3 billion in new agriculture investments for the continent, most of which will be spent on building a foreign-owned fertilizer production facility. Instead of promoting for a sustainable food production, this initiative reinforces the power of agribusinesses to make profits at the expense of small-scale African farmers and local biodiversity.
#agrobusiness #multinationales #Afrique
- #Yara
- #food
- #Obama
- #AFRICA
- #Monsanto
- #G-8
- #Big Ag
- #Obama
- #New Alliance
- #food-aid effort
- #USD
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Hervé Le Crosnier @hlc 15/08/2011 10:26

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The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food - Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27083/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-15
But what’s interesting about this analysis is that Lagi and co say that high food prices don’t necessarily trigger riots themselves, they simply create the conditions in which social unrest can flourish. “These observations are consistent with a hypothesis that high global food prices are a precipitating condition for social unrest,” say Lagi and co.
In other words, high food prices lead to a kind of tipping point when almost anything can trigger a riot, like a lighted match in a dry forest.
- #Marco Lagi
- #Lagi and co
- #food prices
- #food
- #China
- #Lagi and co.
- #high food prices
- #France
- #Technology Review
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- NetLib @netlibertaire ART LIBRE 15/08/2011 11:14
  
  This is important to bear in mind, because rising food prices have historically been the trigger for political revolutions. The three
  revolutions that made the modern world, in France, Russia, and China, all had their immediate origins in food shortages, fear of hunger, and disputes about food pricing.
  The panic about bread that swept France in 1789, and the inability of the government to guarantee supplies, destroyed the ancien regime. Louis XVI was contemptuously called “le boulanger,” the baker. Wartime inflation destroyed stability in the Russian empire in 1917, as farmers, worried about the declining value of their money, hoarded their output and let the cities starve. The Bolsheviks came to power on a promise of bread (and peace). China, too, was paralyzed by inflation after the Second World War, leaving it vulnerable to food panics.
  Food prices are usually not limited in their effects to one country alone. Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine. Price rises have been a major trigger of the discontent this year in the Middle East and North Africa. Though the Egyptian and Tunisian economies were expanding quite satisfactorily, people had to pay much more for food.
  
  http://truthout.org/food-revolution/1307287234
  le 5 juin 2011
  
  #food
  
  #China
  
  NetLib @netlibertaire ART LIBRE
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Nidal @nidal CC BY 29/01/2011 15:19

Twitter / David Hammerstein
http://twitter.com/DaHammerstein/status/31270913018167296
Is Egypt an example of how Sarkozy and Chinese leaders want to “civilize the internet”, as placed on next G-8 agenda?
- #David Hammerstein
- #Twitter
- #G-8
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