See also:
http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE4/Famine-As-Commerce-Bertini6aug02.htm
Famine as commerce: Africa's tragedy DEVANDER SHARMA / AgBioIndia 6aug02
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Biodiversity, agriculture and climate change, and famine as a commercial
opportunity
by Anup Shah
Biodiversity, agriculture and climate change, and famine as a commercial
opportunity. Industrial monoculture agriculture reduces ecological and food
diversity while actually being less productive than smaller scale farming.
Climate change impacts will further reduce the resilience of crops, thus
potentially affecting food security and further increasing dependency on a
few wealthy companies and countries, which can come at an economic,
political and social cost (e.g. lost jobs, and more hunger). Famine has
also been used as a commercial opportunity in recent times, with an example
of Malawi being added here, whereby the IMF required the Malawi government
to sell its surplus grain in favor of foreign exchange just before a famine
struck. Subsequent relief from some wealthy countries was given on
condition that only genetically modified food be purchased from them.
http://globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/FoodDumping/Intro.asp#end
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Food Dumping [Aid] Maintains Poverty
* Destroying local markets; increasing hunger in the name of aid
* The impact on biodiversity and the environment
* Similar processes go on today, especially with Genetically Engineered Foods
* Famines as Commercial Opportunity
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