A tale of two planets
The world produced enough food to feed 12 billion people last year - almost twice the world's population according to UN official Jean Ziegler, yet 854 million people went without food. The reason? $350 billion dollars are being spent on agricultural subsidies by industrialised countries.
So what is being done about it? It's business as usual in the US where a subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee unanimously rubberstamped an extension of existing commodity farm subsidies for the next five years, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, an organization that monitors excessive government spending.
A CAP for Africa is an interesting idea - more comments please.
VK
Posted by: Victor Keegan | September 07, 2007 at 11:35 AM
We will not beat famine by cutting producion in food. We require food security. Africa should have a CAP. This is not communism v Capitalist. It is moderate capitalist v extremist capitalist.
The CAP subsidises food production. Just as we subsidise health, education, and houses. If we do not subsidise food production, then we will have more famines, and have our food security destroyed. You should campaign for Africa to have have CAP.
www.lonympics.co.uk/CAP.htm
It is EU and USA surpluses that help stop famines. ..
Posted by: Xxxx | August 30, 2007 at 02:54 PM
Quite right! I invite those interested to take part in a new campaign that has just been launched by ActionAid: HungerFREE...
http://www.actionaid.org/main.aspx?PageID=677
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