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Par Ramesh Jaura | Tandis que les nations industrialisées principales du monde exprimaient la satisfaction au-dessus de leurs réunions au sommet de trois jours qui ont conclu mercredi, organisations nonnes gouvernemental, après une certaine approbation tôt et limitée, ont été profondément déçus par les résultats dans l'ensemble.

« Le sommet (dans Toyako sur le Hokkaido japonais nordique d'île) a été une autre trahison des pauvres et des citoyens des pays de G8, » Kumi Naidoo, Co-chaise de l'appel global à l'action contre la pauvreté (GCAP) IPS dit.

« Les résultats montrent un manque d'arrangement du coeur des questions causant la faim et le désespoir dans beaucoup de pays. Nous espérons que les citoyens de ces huit pays (Grande-Bretagne, France, Allemagne, Italie, Russie, Japon, Canada et Etats-Unis) feront plus de pression sur le leur dehors-de-touchent des chefs, » Naidoo dit.

« La planète brûle tandis que G8 joue du violon, » la Co-chaise de GCAP supplémentaire.

Naidoo a indiqué que les représentants de GCAP de dix pays observant G8 ont été profondément préoccupés par la façon dont hors de contact avec la réalité G8 a semblé être sur les questions principales liées à la pauvreté de fin.

GCAP est une alliance croissante des syndicats, les groupes de la communauté, les groupes de foi, les femmes et les organismes de la jeunesse, les O.N.G.s et d'autres militants travaillant ensemble à travers plus de 100 pays. GCAP réclame l'action des chefs du monde pour rencontrer leurs promesses de finir la pauvreté et l'inégalité.

« Le manque de n'importe quelle vraie discussion sur des biofuels par rapport à la crise de prix de denrées alimentaires est effroyable. Les références à la santé, à l'éducation et à l'eau sont, tristement, non soutenu par à ressources proportionnées et un engagement de chronologie, » a dit Naidoo.

Tandis que G8 paye le « service de lèvre au MDGs », leurs engagements suggèrent que même ces buts de minimaliste soient sérieusement en danger d'échouer d'ici 2015, Naidoo dit.

MDGs sont les huit buts de développement de millénium qui s'étendent de diviser en deux la pauvreté extrême à stopper la diffusion du HIV/SIDA et à fournir l'éducation primaire universelle, à réunir d'ici la date de cible de 2015. Ceux-ci ont été convenus par des chefs d'Etat et le gouvernement à une session spéciale de l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU en septembre 2000.

G8 dit dans un document sur le développement et l'Afrique qui « bien que le progrès ait été accompli, les défis significatifs demeurent. Nous remplaçons notre engagement à ces buts en revigorant nos efforts, et en renforçant nos associations avec, aussi bien qu'encourager les efforts de, les pays en voie de développement basés sur la responsabilité mutuelle. »

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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