RINF.COM: L'ALTERNATIVE DE RUPTURE DE NOUVELLES
Samedi 2 août 2008
RINF.COM: L'ALTERNATIVE DE RUPTURE DE NOUVELLES
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RUPTURE DES NOUVELLES |
La crise apparaît indistinctement pendant que les sociétés saisissent la commande des produits
Samedi 2 août 2008 Discutez ce rapport dans les forum de RINF > Par Barbara L. Minton | La crise de nourriture globale ne partira pas n'importe quand bientôt. Le capitalisme a le consommateur moyen par le ventre. Parmi les signes croissants de la famine et de l'outrage, la chaîne entière des produits et des ressources en monde maintenant sont acculées par des sociétés géantes. Les champs, l'eau, l'engrais, la graine, l'énergie, et la plupart des nécessités de base de la vie tombent sous la commande de corporation, fournissant la richesse et la puissance accrues à l'élite régnante tandis que le reste d'humanité lutte. Pénurie des produits dedans L'Inde a été récemment reflété dans la nécessité de distribuer engrais du commissariat de police dans Hingoli. Maintenant la police doit commander les lignes qui forment en dehors de des sorties de revendeur, parce que les revendeurs ne s'ouvriront pas pour des affaires autrement. Sans cette intervention il n'y aurait aucun engrais pour la plantation qui doit avoir lieu avant que la pluie vienne. Dans Akola et Nanded, la participation de police est nécessaire également. Les dirigeants d'agriculture se sont sauvés leurs lieux de travail à l'évasion fâchée fermiers. Dans Karnataka, un fermier a été tiré complètement pendant les protestations, alors que les fermiers donnaient l'assaut à des réunions et établissaient des blocs de route dans d'autres zones. En dépit du succès du coton génétiquement machiné de Bt récoltes, la tendance en Inde est maintenant de nouveau à soja parce qu'ils ont coûté moins pour accroître et avoir besoin de moins d'engrais que le coton. Et ce n'est pas un engrais simplement qui est rare. Les graines sont également difficiles à obtenir qui est blâmé sur l'agitation qui a interféré le trafic de train de fret. Cependant, le déficit dedans graines est 60 pour cent, un niveau plus indicatif de l'intervention de corporation à conduire vers le haut des prix que les actions des fermiers impuissants. Comme les fermiers émettent de la vapeur, Wall Street Journal annonce le saut battant à plat de couture de 42 pour cent dans les bénéfices fiscaux du troisième trimestre d'énorme agriculture intérieur géant d'Archer-Daniels. Cette augmentation inclut une élévation de sevenfold dans le nouveau revenu dans les unités qui stockent, transportent et évaluent des grains tels que le blé, maïs et soja. Les bénéfices montants du fabricant Potash Corporation d'engrais de Saskatchewan sont reflétés dans le mouvement parabolique de son cours des actions d'actions d'un bas annuel de $70.35 à son prix actuel courant de $238.22 par part. Parts de producteur Mosaic Corp. d'alimentation des animaux d'engrais et. have risen from a yearly low of $32.50 to a current price of $159.38. Similar windfall profits are reported by GMO seed and herbicide king Monsanto whose last quarterly earnings surged by 45%. Some onlookers blame the financial speculators for driving up the prices of commodities related to agriculture as wealthy investors have piled on looking to cash in on the rising stock prices. And in many ways, today’s commodity market resembles the dot.com boom seen at the turn of the century, as well as the housing boom now in the throws of its bust. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission recently held a hearing to investigate the role that index funds and hedge funds are playing in driving up the prices of agricultural commodities. Total public fund investment in corn, soybean, wheat, cattle and hogs has risen by 37 billion dollars since 2006. This figure does not include the huge investments of hedge funds which don’t have to make such disclosure. It also doesn’t include the massive world wide investments in farmland made by the wealthy. The corporate spin is that these investments are helpful to humanity because they will ultimately result in increased food production at a time of rising world demand. They cite the need for increased corporate profits to invest in and develop new technologies that will help farmers improve productivity. This is how GMO seeds are being driven down the throats of farmers, who are told that the modified seeds can squeeze even more yield from each acre of planting. India has joined other developing countries in the decision to invest less in agriculture as advised by the World Bank-IMF, whose agenda has been to discourage crops for domestic consumption while encouraging production to spur export driven growth. This advice coupled with corporate sponsored deregulation has paved the way for corporate control of the farming process from seed to market. Research and development that was once the domain of universities has also fallen into corporate control. Farmers in India are caught in a credit crunch. Even if they are able to get the needed fertilizer, they will not have the credit to pay for it. With no increase in farmer income, larger loans are not advanced. The outlook for the small farmer there is much the same as it was in the U.S. thirty years ago, during the height of the small farms falling to big agribusiness. Corporations blame food shortages and rising prices on the people of China and India whose burgeoning income from manufacturing has allowed the average worker to increase both the amount and quality of his food consumption. But for the corporations, the increased demand for food is a guarantee of super profits to come. Of course the other commodity you can’t get along without is water, which is now the focus of huge multinational companies seeking to privatize water world wide, perhaps even patent it as Monsanto did with seeds. The fight over water may bring chaos, conflict and misery on a scale never seen before as corporations and governments go so far as to grab the wells from under people’s houses. And then there’s oil. To produce chemical fertilizer you must make use of fossil fuel. So rising oil prices and rising food prices are joined at the hip. The behavior of corporations in the oil business has been so egregious that there is talk of a windfall profits tax here and abroad. No, the food crisis will not go away anytime soon. North Korea, Burma and Western Sudan are currently feeling a real threat of starvation while western governments manipulated by corporations continue to promote the diversion of food into biofuels to further exacerbate the upward movement in food prices. Almost all U.S. corn production between 2004 and 2007 has gone into the production of ethanol. European production of ethanol has more than tripled during the same period. This has led to a fall off in grains relative to overall demand which is not a market phenomenon but is the direct result of the government sponsored, corporate backed programs. This comes at the expense of people looking for something to eat, particularly the world’s poor who are now effectively priced out of the food market. Sources: P. Sainath, The Hindu, “Fertilizing profit, sowing misery” Bogdan C. Enache, China Confidential, “Biofuels and the threat of starvation” Yahoo Finance Discuss this report in the RINF forums > Have Your Say: Crisis Looms as Corporations Seize Control of Commodities This entry was posted on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 at 8:19 pm and is filed under Political News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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