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星期四， 2008年7月10日
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由 Ramesh Jaura | 当世界的主要工业化国家表达了满意在一些早和有限的认同以后结束星期三，非政府组织的他们3天的高峰会议时，对结果深深地失望总体上。

“山顶(在Toyako在北日本海岛北海道)是G8国家的贫寒和公民的另一背叛”， Kumi Naidoo，全球性开始行动的联合主席反对贫穷(GCAP)告诉的IPS。

“结果显示缺乏对导致饥饿和失望的问题的心脏的理解在许多国家。 我们希望这八个国家(英国、法国、德国、意大利、俄国、日本、加拿大和美国)的公民在他们将施加更多压力接触领导”， Naidoo说。

“行星烧，当G8鬼混时”， GCAP联合主席增加。

Naidoo说观察G8的十个国家GCAP代表深深有关在怎样生疏以现实G8似乎关于主题与结尾贫穷有关。

GCAP是工会的一个增长的联盟、社区小组、信念小组、妇女和横跨超过100个国家的青年组织、NGOs和其他运动家。 GCAP要求行动从世界的领导遇见他们的诺言结束贫穷和不平等。

“缺乏关于biofuels的所有真正的讨论关于食物价格危机是骇人的。 在健康、教育和水的参考是不由充分资源和时间安排承诺，哀伤地，支持”， Naidoo说。

当G8支付“为MDGs的空口的应酬话”时，他们的承诺建议甚而这些最低纲领派目标是严重在危险中出故障在2015年以前， Naidoo说。

MDGs是目标日期从对分极端贫穷范围对制止HIV/AIDS传播和提供普遍初等教育的八个千年发展目标，将遇见的2015年。 这些由国家首脑和政府在2000年9月同意在联合国大会的一个临时会议。

G8在一个文件在“的发展和非洲认为，虽然进展获得了，重大挑战依然存在。 我们更新我们的承诺到这些目标通过使我们的努力恢复生气和通过加强我们的合作与，并且鼓励努力，根据相互责任的发展中国家”。

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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