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Por Ramesh Jaura | Mientras que las naciones industrializadas principales del mundo expresaron la satisfacción sobre sus cumbres de tres días que concluyeron miércoles, organizaciones no gubernamentales, después de una cierta aprobación temprana y limitada, estuvieron decepcionados profundamente con el resultado en el conjunto.

“La cumbre (en Toyako en el Hokkaido japonés norteño de la isla) ha sido otra traición de los pobres y de los ciudadanos de los países G8,” Kumi Naidoo, co-silla de la llamada global a la acción contra la pobreza (GCAP) IPS dicho.

“El resultado demuestra una carencia de la comprensión del corazón de las ediciones que causan hambre y la desesperación en muchos países. Esperamos que los ciudadanos de estos ocho países (Gran Bretaña, Francia, Alemania, Italia, Rusia, Japón, Canadá y los Estados Unidos) apliquen más presión en su hacia fuera-de-toquen a líderes,” Naidoo dicho.

“El planeta se está quemando mientras que el G8 está tocando el violín,” la co-silla de GCAP agregada.

Naidoo dijo que los representantes de GCAP de diez países que observaban el G8 fueron referidos profundamente en cómo fuera de tacto con realidad el G8 se parecía estar en los puntos principales relacionados con la pobreza del conclusión.

GCAP es una alianza cada vez mayor de sindicatos, los grupos de la comunidad, los grupos de la fe, las mujeres y las organizaciones de la juventud, los NGOs y otros paladines trabajando junto a través de más de 100 países. GCAP está llamando para la acción de los líderes del mundo para resolver sus promesas de terminar pobreza y la desigualdad.

“La carencia de cualquier discusión verdadera sobre biofuels en lo referente a la crisis del precio de alimento está aterrando. Las referencias a la salud, a la educación y al agua son, no apoyado tristemente por recursos adecuados y una comisión del timeline,” dijo Naidoo.

Mientras que el G8 paga “servicio del labio al MDGs”, sus comisiones sugieren que incluso estas metas del minimalist estén seriamente a riesgo de fallar antes de 2015, Naidoo dicho.

MDGs es las ocho metas del desarrollo del milenio que se extienden de partir en dos pobreza extrema a parar la extensión de HIV/AIDS y a proporcionar la educación primaria universal, que se satisfarán por la fecha de la blanco de 2015. Éstos fueron convenidos por los jefes de estado y gobierno en una sesión especial de la Asamblea General de la O.N.U en septiembre de 2000.

El G8 dicho en un documento en el desarrollo y África que “aunque se ha hecho el progreso, los desafíos significativos siguen siendo. Renovamos nuestra comisión a estas metas reinvigorating nuestros esfuerzos, y consolidando nuestras sociedades con, así como animar los esfuerzos de, los países en vías de desarrollo basados en responsabilidad mutua.”

Minar Pimple, Asia director of the UN Millennium Campaign commented: “Reaffirmation of MDG commitment is a positive signal in the run-up to the MDG high level event in September, but the financial resources on the table fall short of what needs to be achieved by 2015.”

GCAP said that the G8 communiqué this year only reiterates most of the group’s earlier commitments “but the world has changed for the worse since 2005.”

The increase in food prices by 30 to 45 percent has had a devastating effect, especially on women and children trying to survive on less than a dollar a day, GCAP warns. Millions more are being pushed into poverty, it says.

“Japan was not able to muster up the leadership we hoped to see from them as summit host,” GCAP Japan representative Tatsuo Hayashi said. “The Japanese people wanted more action to end poverty, so they will be disappointed too.”

These remarks stand in stark contrast to the kudos Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda received this week from summit participants for his “leadership, commitment and sense of purpose,” as one participant described it.

In another analysis of the conference documents, GCAP welcomed the 10 billion dollars pledged by the G8 since January 2008 towards the global food price crisis, but said “it is still a knee-jerk response that doesn’t address the long-term structural causes.

“The G8 promotion of the ‘development of open and efficient agricultural and food markets’ has denied poor people the chance to feed themselves today. It treats food as a mere commodity,” said Joseph Ssuuna of the PELUM Association in Uganda, which is a member of GCAP.

“The G8 also seem to be pressing for quick-fix trade negotiations which we believe would be devastating — no deal is better than a bad deal,” said Charles Abani of GCAP Africa.

“Tragically, market-driven development, one of the principal causes of the present food crisis, appears to be the solution offered by the present G8 leaders. This is appalling,” said Dian Kartika of GCAP Indonesia.

Reacting to the G8 leaders’ statement on the Global Food Security Tuesday, farmer leader from the ‘Via Campesina’ group Yoshitaka Mashima said: “We do not understand why the G8 leaders pretend to solve the food crisis with more free trade while it is the liberalisation of agriculture and food markets that continue to lead us to the current crisis.

“People need to eat local food to protect themselves from the instability of world markets. We do not need more imported food,” Mashima told IPS.

At a press conference Wednesday, farmers’ leaders said that the G8 governments were mistakenly using the current food and climate crisis to promote the free trade agenda that is serving large companies, and not producers of food or the consumers.

The G8 leaders’ statement insists on reviving the agonising WTO negotiations and on preventing countries from regulating food exports.

“Small farmers around the world, men and women, have experienced the devastating effects of free trade and WTO policies on livelihoods and local food production,” the farmers’ statement said. “They defend the right of countries to protect their domestic markets, to support sustainable family farmers, and to market food in the countries where it is produced.”

It said that the G8 leaders also fail to address two major causes of the current food price crisis: speculation by major traders and transnational companies, and the development of bio-fuel as a new source of energy.

“It is important to keep in mind that these root causes of the food crisis are the consequences of the neo-liberal policies promoted by the G8 governments, the WTO, the World Bank and other institutions,” Mashima said.

The farmers point out that the G8 also explicitly promotes genetically modified organisms (GMO) as a solution to the food crisis. In doing so, they say, the G8 countries forget that the development of industrial agriculture, with the use of GMO seeds, large amounts of chemical pesticides, fertilisers and monoculture has left millions of farmers in debt.

The statement also challenges the G8 claim about “fostering small holder agriculture.” But Mashima said: “We are wondering how the world’s richest nations will support small farmers if they do not even allow them to enter the countries where they are meeting.”

Nineteen Korean farmers from Via Campesina were deported from Hokkaido airport Jul. 5 after being detained for 48 hours on the grounds that they could disturb the official meetings.

Mashima said that peasants and small food producers currently produce the bulk of world food, and no solution to the current crisis will be found without listening to them.

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