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Donderdag, 10 Juli, 2008
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Door Ramesh Jaura | Terwijl de belangrijkste geïndustrialiseerdet naties van de wereld tevredenheid over hun driedaagse topvergaderingen uitdrukten dat de besloten Woensdag, niet-gouvernementele organisaties, na wat vroege en beperkte goedkeuring, diep met het resultaat in het algemeen werd teleurgesteld.

De „top (in Toyako op het noordelijke Japanse eiland Hokkaido) is een andere betrayal van de armen en de burgers van G8 landen,“ Kumi Naidoo, co-chair van de Globale Vraag aan Actie vertelde IPS tegen van de Armoede (GCAP) geweest.

Het „resultaat toont een gebrek aan begrip van het hart van de kwesties veroorzakend honger en wanhoop in vele landen. Wij hopen de burgers van deze acht landen (Groot-Brittannië, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Italië, Rusland, Japan, Canada en de Verenigde Staten) meer druk op hun uit-van-aanrakingsleiders zullen zetten,“ bovengenoemde Naidoo.

De „planeet brandt terwijl G8 lummelt,“ toegevoegd co-chair GCAP.

Naidoo zei de vertegenwoordigers GCAP van tien landen die G8 waarnemen diep betrokken waren bij hoe uit aanraking met werkelijkheid G8 om op de belangrijkste kwesties scheen te zijn met betrekking tot het einde van armoede.

GCAP is een groeiende alliantie van vakbonden, communautaire groepen, geloofsgroepen, vrouwen en de jeugdorganisaties, NGOs en andere campagnevoerders die over meer dan 100 landen samenwerken. GCAP verzoekt actie van de wereldleiders om hun beloften te ontmoeten om armoede en ongelijkheid te beëindigen.

Het „gebrek aan om het even welke echte bespreking over biofuels met betrekking tot de crisis van de voedselprijs is verschrikkelijk. De verwijzingen naar gezondheid, onderwijs en water, worden niet droevig gesteund door adequate middelen en een chronologieverplichting,“ bovengenoemde Naidoo.

Terwijl G8 „beloften aan MDGs“ betaalt, stellen hun verplichtingen voor dat zelfs deze minimalistische doelstellingen ernstig om tegen 2015 in gevaar zijn, bovengenoemde Naidoo te ontbreken.

MDGs is zich de Doelstellingen van de Ontwikkeling van acht Millennia die van het halveren van extreme armoede aan het stoppen van de verspreiding van HIV/AIDS en het verstrekken van universeel primair onderwijs uitstrekken, die door het streefdatum van 2015 moeten worden ontmoet. Deze werden goedgekeurd door staatshoofden en overheid bij een speciale zitting van de Algemene Vergadering van de V.N. in September 2000.

G8 gezegd in een document op Ontwikkeling en Afrika dat „hoewel vooruitgang is geboekt, de significante uitdagingen blijven. Wij vernieuwen onze verplichting aan deze doelstellingen door onze inspanningen reinvigorating, en door onze vennootschappen met, evenals de inspanningen aan te moedigen van, de ontwikkelingslanden te versterken die op wederzijdse verantwoordingsplicht worden gebaseerd.“

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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