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		<title>Food Prices &#8211; speculation and hoarding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 16:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jomo Kwame Sundaram , United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development writes :- &#8220;Lack of food is rarely the reason that people go hungry. The world today produces enough food to feed everyone. The problem is that more and more people simply cannot afford to buy the food they need. Even before the recent food-price increases, a billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world’s population. Global food prices are at the highest level since the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization started monitoring them in 1990. The World Bank estimates that recent food-price increases have driven an additional 44 million people in developing countries into poverty. The rapid rise in world prices for all basic food crops – corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice – along with other foods like cooking oils, has been devastating for poor households all over the world. But almost everybody’s standard of living has been reduced. Middle-class [-income] people are increasingly careful about their food purchases; the near-poor are losing headway and falling below, rather than staying above, the poverty line; and the [...]


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		<title>Making Bread</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wheat is the new gold. As poor countries brace for shortages, it&#8217;s boom time for Kansas farmers. &#8220;It feels like Christmas in August,&#8221; admitted Darrell Hanavan, of the Colorado Wheat Administrative Committee, noting that the harvest just completed in his state seems to have been the most bountiful for 25 years. The dollar value for the crop is almost sure to set a record. The US Department of Agriculture expects US exports to surge by 36 per cent this year. The futures prices of wheat on the Chicago commodities exchanges are spiking at heights that even a few weeks ago would have seemed mad – above $7 (£4.50) a bushel in recent days. Speculators rushing to buy wheat in the wake of Russia&#8217;s export ban may have created a bubble that is not immune from bursting. Russia announced that weeks of fierce heat and uncontrolled fires would cost the country a quarter of its crop and that its wheat exports, which will be frozen from tomorrow, may not resume until next year. Output in Ukraine and Kazakhstan has slumped too. Canadian wheat farmers have been struggling with crops drowned by rains that won&#8217;t stop, and in eastern Australia, the wheat [...]


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		<title>Can&#8217;t Pay &#8211; Can&#8217;t Have</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2010/07/cant-pay-cant-have/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing food crisis in the Sahel, West Africa is actually a purchasing power crisis: there is food in the markets, but the poorest households cannot afford it said Bakari Seidou, food security advisor to Save the Children UK. &#8220;The market is their main source of food, but they need money. Their main source of cash is their labour: they earn an average of 20 cents a day per person; even if there is food available on the markets, they can not afford it.&#8221; Insufficient agricultural production: the poorest families have insufficient earning power; more than 50 percent of household income comes from paid labour, but significant numbers are unable to secure work locally and are forced to migrate or sell their land to buy food and pay debts. More than half the income of the poorest goes to food: even in agricultural areas, food purchases eat up more than half of family income; any food price increase means a family may eat less, consume food of poor nutritional value, or cut education and health expenses. Substantial wealth gap: in agricultural areas, the richest earn from nine to 15 times more than the poorest; even though they only represent 15 [...]


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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Haygood</dc:creator>
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		<title>Capitalism and food security – an oxymoron</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism and food security – an oxymoron Food security for all the people of the world will only be possible whem the profit motive is taken out of food supply. It&#8217;s official! Now more than one billion people are hungry and in desperate need of food aid according to the World Food Programme. To meet this need $6.7 billion will be required this year alone (of which less than half has been raised so far). $6.7 billion equates to less than 0.01 percent of that heaped on the needy banks and corporations during the recent and ongoing financial crisis. But help is at hand, at least for Africa&#8217;s hungry millions, in the form of a New Green Revolution courtesy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Or is it? According to Raj Patel, Eric Holt-Gimenez and Annie Shattuck in &#8216;Ending Africa&#8217;s Hunger&#8217; (The Nation, September 21), “the conventional wisdom is wrong. Food output per person is as high as it has ever been, suggesting that hunger isn&#8217;t a problem of production so much as one of distribution.” A leaked internal strategy document statement from the Gates Foundation stated, “over time this (strategy) will require some degree of mobility and a [...]


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		<title>Food Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eat Your Heart Out. Felicity Lawrence. Penguin. Following on from Not on the Label, this is another book by Felicity Lawrence that exposes much that’s wrong with the food we eat and the way it’s produced and, therefore, much that’s wrong with capitalism as a way of running the world. Lawrence describes conventional farming as ‘a system for turning oil into food’. There is simply more profit in industrial food production than in plain healthy food like fruit and veg. Consequently consumers’ food choices are manipulated, so that we ‘want’ what the food industry sells at the biggest profit and we buy what we have been persuaded to buy. This is mainly achieved by advertising, but also by more insidious means: adding massive amounts of sugar to baby food gets babies, and therefore children and adults, hooked on sweetness. Let’s take a couple of case studies. Processed cereals, for instance, represent ‘a triumph of marketing’. And agricultural subsidies from government help to keep companies’ costs down and profits up. The nutritious part of cornflakes is deliberately removed because it gets in the way of a long shelf life. As a result of this and the addition of sugar, breakfast cereals [...]


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		<title>Food, Inc.</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2008/10/what-food-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1921 36 companies were responsible for 85 percent of US grain exports. By the end of the 70s six companies controlled 90+ percent of Canadian, European, Australian and Argentinian grain and currently Cargill and Continental each control 25 percent of the world&#8217;s grain trade. While 37 nations have been plunged into food crisis Monsanto has had record sales from herbicides and seeds and Cargill&#8217;s profit increased by 86 percent. On the one hand these corporations use, wherever there is a perceived advantage, the poorer countries for cash crops, manufacturing using cheap labour, cheaper processing and they take advantage of huge subsidies for which they lobby constantly, and on the other show indifference to the employees and labourers in these countries. Wages are kept as low as can be managed and conditions of employment are almost non-existent. Long working hours, enforced, often unpaid, overtime, no sick-pay non-existent or poor compensation for accidents and no pension. Of the world&#8217;s people as a whole, 70 percent earn their livelihood by producing food, their own included. From these a growing number are now producing crops for fodder or alternative fuels, reducing the amount of land available for human food production and thereby increasing [...]


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		<title>Feeding the World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Bush in an interactive business session had argued that while prosperity in countries like India is good, it triggers increased demand for better nutrition, which in turn leads to higher food prices.The comments came close on the heels of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice&#8217;s controversial statement that &#8216;apparent improvement&#8217; in the diets of people in India and China is among the causes of the current global food crisis. The Truth Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% &#8211; far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report. The figure emphatically contradicts the US government&#8217;s claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil. Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing President George Bush. The report confirms a British finding that the rush to develop biofuels has played a &#8220;significant&#8221; role in the dramatic rise in global food prices. And an estimates their impact as 20-30% rise. &#8220;Political leaders seem intent [...]


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		<title>Jumbo Gets Smaller</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;American supermarkets are epics of excess: it often seems like every item in the store comes in a &#8220;Jumbo&#8221; size or has &#8220;Bonus!&#8221; splashed across the label. But is it possible that the amount of food Americans are buying is, in fact&#8230; shrinking? Well, yes. Soaring commodity and fuel prices are driving up costs for manufacturers; faced with a choice between raising prices (which consumers would surely notice) or quietly putting fewer ounces in the bag, carton or cup (which they generally don&#8217;t) manufacturers are choosing the latter. This month, Kellogg&#8217;s started shipping Apple Jacks, Cocoa Krispies, Corn Pops, Froot Loops and Honey Smacks containing an average of 2.4 fewer ounces per box.&#8221; (Yahoo News, 30 June) RD No related posts.


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		<title>Biofuels…What the hell’s goin’ on?</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2008/05/biofuels%e2%80%a6what-the-hell%e2%80%99s-goin%e2%80%99-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 04:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WSPA</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of media reports indicate that fuel produced from food crops to replace fossil oil is far from the panacea it was hoped to be. For example Guenter Verheugen, a vice president of the European Commission, stated recently that &#8220;It makes no sense to make car fuel from plants that ought to provide human and animal food.&#8221; Indeed, the &#8216;moral&#8217; question of diverting food and using fertile food-growing land to produce fuel, while 850 million people in the world today are hungry, is a cause for concern. The explosion in demand for food crops to be converted into biodiesel and ethanol in America and Europe is backed by government subsidies and enticements. Farmers, of course, have no compunction in chasing higher returns for their produce so food prices will be driven up by the biofuel industry. General Motors (USA) are already creating fleets of vehicles designed to run on ethanol by 2012. four hundred million tonnes of food will burn as a fuel substitute each year by 2020…equivalent to the entire rice harvest of the world, or the complete American wheat crop. The destruction of the world’s remaining jungle, forest and native vegetation, especially in South America, Malaysia and [...]


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