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토요일, 2008년 8월 2일
RINF.COM: 속보 대안
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위기는 기업이 필수품의 통제권을 장악하는 때 아련히 나타난다
토요일, 2008년 8월 2일 RINF 공개토론에 있는 이 보고를 토론하십시오 > 에 의하여 바바라 L. Minton | 세계적인 식량위기는 곧 가버리지 않을 것이다. 자본주의에는 아랫배 옆에 일반 소비자가 있다. 기근과 침범의 성장 표시의 속에, 필수품의 전체 사슬 및 세계의 자원은 지금 거대한 기업에 의해 모서리를 내고 있다. 인류의 나머지가 고투하는 동안 경작지, 물, 비료, 씨, 에너지, 및 생활의 기본적인 필요성의 대부분은 법인 통제의 밑에 떨어져, 증가시킨 부 및 힘을 지배하는 엘리트에 제공한. 안으로 필수품 부족 인도 최근에 배부하는 필요에서 반영되었다 비료 Hingoli에 있는 경찰서에서. 지금 경찰은 상인이 사업을 위해 그렇지 않으면 열지 않을 것이기 때문에, 상인 출구의 이상으로 형성하는 선을 통제해야 한다. 이 내정간섭 없는 비가 오기 전에 일어나야 하는 설치를 위한 아무 비료도 없을 것입니다. Akola와 Nanded에서는, 경찰 관련은 또한 필요로 한다. 농업 장교에 의하여 성났던 도주에 그들의 직장이 달아났다 농부. Karnataka에서는, 농부는 항의 동안에 농부에 의하여는 다른 지역에 있는 회의 그리고 체제 도로 구획이 폭풍이 불었는 그러나, 황폐하게 쏘였다. Bt 유전으로 설계된 면의 성공에도 불구하고 작물, 인도에 있는 동향은 등을 맞댄 지금 있다 콩 면 보다는 더 적은 비료를 성장하고 필요로 하기 위하여 그들이 더 적은을 요했기 때문에. 그리고 부족한 정당한 비료가 아니다. 씨는 또한 공급 부족 이다 화물 열차 소통량과 방해한 동요에 비난되고 있는. 그러나, 안으로 적자 씨 60%, 무력한 농부의 활동 보다는 가격 높은 쪽으로 몰 것이다 법인 내정간섭을 표시하는 수준 이다. 농부가 fume 대로, 월스트리트 저널 거대한의 국고 3분기 이익에 있는 때리는 42% 점프를 예고한다 농업 Midland 거대한 사수 Daniels. 이 증가는 밀과 같은 곡물을 저장하고, 수송하고 등급을 매기는 단위에 있는 새로운 소득에 있는 sevenfold 상승을 포함한다 옥수수 그리고 콩. 새스캐치원의 비료 제작자 Potash Corporation의 활상 이익은 $70.35의 해마다 낮은것에서 몫 당 $238.22의 그것의 현행 가격에 그것의 주가의 비유 운동에서 반영된다. 비료 그리고 동물 먹이 생산자 Mosaic Corp.의 몫. 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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