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星期四， 2008年7月10日
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由 Ramesh Jaura | 當世界的主要工業化國家表達了滿意在一些早和有限的認同以後結束星期三，非政府組織的他們3天的高峰會議時，對結果深深地失望總體上。

「山頂(在Toyako在北日本海島北海道)是G8國家的貧寒和公民的另一背叛」， Kumi Naidoo，全球性開始行動的聯合主席反對貧窮(GCAP)告訴的IPS。

「結果顯示缺乏對導致飢餓和失望的問題的心臟的理解在許多國家。 我們希望這八個國家(英國、法國、德國、意大利、俄國、日本、加拿大和美國)的公民在他們將施加更多壓力接觸領導」， Naidoo說。

「行星燒，當G8鬼混時」， GCAP聯合主席增加。

Naidoo說觀察G8的十個國家GCAP代表深深有關在怎樣生疏以現實G8似乎關於主題與結尾貧窮有關。

GCAP是工會的一個增長的聯盟、社區小組、信念小組、婦女和橫跨超過100個國家的青年組織、NGOs和其他運動家。 GCAP要求行動從世界的領導遇見他們的諾言結束貧窮和不平等。

「缺乏關於biofuels的所有真正的討論關於食物價格危機是駭人的。 在健康、教育和水的參考是不由充分資源和時間安排承諾，哀傷地，支持」， Naidoo說。

當G8支付「為MDGs的空口的應酬話」時，他們的承諾建議甚而這些最低綱領派目標是嚴重在危险中出故障在2015年以前， Naidoo說。

MDGs是目標日期從對分極端貧窮範圍對制止HIV/AIDS傳播和提供普遍初等教育的八個千年發展目標，將遇見的2015年。 這些由國家首腦和政府在2000年9月同意在聯合國大會的一個臨時會議。

G8在一個文件在「的發展和非洲認為，雖然進展獲得了，重大挑戰依然存在。 我們更新我們的承諾到這些目標通過使我們的努力恢復生氣和通過加強我們的合作與，並且鼓勵努力，根據相互責任的發展中國家」。

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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