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當公司掌握商品，控制危機隱約地出現
星期六， 2008年8月2日 談論這個報告在RINF論壇 > 由 巴巴拉L。 Minton | 全球性糧食危機很快不會走開。 資本主義有一般的消費者由腹部。 在飢荒和暴行之中的增長的標誌，商品整個世界的鏈子和資源由大的公司現在壟斷。 當其餘人類奮鬥時，農田、水、肥料、種子，能量和大多生活基本的必要屬於公司控制，提供增加的財富和力量給支配的精華。 商品缺乏 印度 在需要最近被反射了分佈 肥料 從警察局在Hingoli。 現在警察必須控制形成在經銷商出口外面的線，因為經銷商不會為事務否則開始。 沒有這干預沒有肥料為必須發生的種植，在雨來之前。 在Akola和Nanded，警察介入也必要。 農業官員出逃了他們的工作地點到逃命惱怒 農夫. 在抗議期間，在Karnataka，而農夫在其他區，猛衝了會議和設定路塊農夫被射擊了死。 儘管基因上設計的Bt棉花的成功 莊稼趨向在印度現在回到 大豆 因為他們比棉花花費較少生長和需要較少肥料。 并且它不是缺乏的僅肥料。 種子也短缺在鼓動被責備干涉了貨車交通。 然而，赤字 種子 比無力的農夫的行動是60%，水平駕駛的表示公司干預價格。 農夫fume， 華爾街日報 在財政第三季度贏利宣佈痛擊的42%躍遷巨大 農業 巨型射手Daniels Midland。 這增量在新的收入在存放，運輸并且分級五穀例如麥子的單位包括sevenfold上升， 玉米 并且大豆。 肥料製作商Potash薩斯喀徹溫省Corporation騰飛的贏利在它的股票價格的拋物面運動被反射從逐年低落$70.35到它的現價的$238.22每個份額。 肥料和動物飼養生產商Mosaic Corp.份額。 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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