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G8 zu den armen Frauen: Lassen Sie sie Schmutz essen

Donnerstag, den 24. Juli 2008
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| Letzte Woche, Führer der reichsten Länder der Welt, die Achtergruppe (G8), getroffen, um den Kurs der globalen Wirtschaft am luxuriösen Windsor Hotel Toya Erholungsort und am Badekurort in Toyako, Japan zu entwerfen. Während Präsident Bush und seine Kollegen Welthunger über einem Sechskurs Mittagessen besprach, bereiteten Frauen in Haiti Kuchen des Schmutzes für Abendessen ihrer Kinder vor.

Den Schmutz zu essen, gemischt mit Salz und Gemüseshortening, ist die neueste fertig werdene Strategie der haitianischen Mütter, die zu den ruhigen hungrigen Kindern in einem Jahr versuchen, als die Kosten des Reises (Heftklammernahrung Haitis) fast 150 Prozent gestiegen sind.

Ironisch waren viele dieser Frauen einmal Reislandwirte selbst. Aber in den achtziger Jahren, US - angebauter Reis fing an, in Haiti auszulaufen. Dank Bundesbeihilfe, der importierte Reis wurden für kleiner als verkauft, was es kostete, um es zu wachsen. Haitianische Landwirte konnten nicht gerade konkurrieren.

Keine konnten Millionen anderer Landwirte um die Welt, die bankrupted durch den Zufluß des Reises, des Mais und des Weizens von den US, vom Europa und vom Japan gewesen sind. Diese Landwirte sind vom Anbauen ihrer eigenen Nahrung und vom Einziehen ihrer Länder zum Müssen Preis Nahrung kaufen gegangen, für die auf einem globalen Markt festgesetzt wird. Nun da diese Warenbörsen ährentragendes haben, können Millionen von mehr Familien nicht sich leisten zu essen.

Sogar hier in den US, noch kämpfen das reichste Land der Welt, immer mehr Familien, um sich Nahrung diese Tage zu leisten. Dankbar werden wir nicht gezwungen, unseren Kindern Schlammschichten einzuziehen. Aber schließlich, werden alle Arbeitsfamilien und kleinen Landwirte, ob in Haiti oder in Iowa, durch Bauernhofpolitische richtlinien verletzt, die zugunsten der riesigen Nahrungsmittelkorporationen entworfen sind.

Betrachten Sie die US Kornbeihilfe, die so viele haitianische Familien zum Rand des überlebens gedrückt haben. Sie haben auch Familie Landwirte hier zu Hause verletzt. Das ist, weil der Anteil des Löwes von diesem $307 Milliarde zu den größten Fabrikbauernhöfen geht und läßt Kleinhalter Landwirte, um für selbst abzuwehren.

Da wir letzten Monat sahen, als Fluten heraus Hunderte Morgen Getreide im Mittelwesten abwischten, ist das Bewirtschaften ein riskantes Geschäft. Es ist die Familie Landwirte, die nicht viel eines finanziellen Kissens haben, das wir mit Beihilfe schützen sollten.

Das selbe geht für Kleinhalter Landwirte in Haiti und in anderen Entwicklungsländern. Most of these farmers are women, are mothers, who like most moms in the U.S., are responsible for putting dinner on the table every day. In developing countries, these mothers often grow their family’s food from scratch.

The small-holder, women farmers had no say in the decisions that the G8 leaders’ made about the global food crisis. Yet, it turns out that they have a lot to say when it comes to finding solutions to the crisis they are facing.

Just before the G8 meeting, a network of women’s groups from Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Colombia issued an open letter to the G8. Brought together by the international women’s human rights organization, MADRE, the women called on the G8 to support real solutions to the food crisis. They proposed concrete changes in the global economy, like international mechanisms to stabilize the cost of food and protect the livelihoods of farmers. They called for billion-dollar-a-day agricultural subsidies to be converted from support for big agribusiness to incentives for sustainable, small-scale and organic farms.

These are solid proposals backed up by research and years of first-hand experience in communities that are on the frontlines of today’s food crisis.

But instead of taking steps that could remedy the problem, the G8 plugged more of the same corporate-friendly trade and agriculture policies that brought on the food crisis in the first place.

G8 leaders called for more “open markets” in food trade. Openness sounds good, but in practice this means that poor countries can’t use tariffs to protect farmers from unfair competition.

The G8 also pushed for stricter patent laws. These rules take ownership of seeds — the very basis of all agriculture — away from small farmers and enable giant biotech companies like Monsanto to control our food supply.

The G8 did call for more aid to countries like Haiti that have been hard hit by the spike in food prices. That’s an important step when lives are at stake. But the money is to be administered through the International Monetary Fund, famous for making offers with strings attached. In this case, governments will be required to implement more of the kind of trade liberalization that hurts poor people and small farmers and has created record profits for big food corporations this year.

But as the women’s letter to the G8 clearly shows, it’s not corporate profits, but human rights –including the basic right to food — that will underpin real solutions to the food crisis.

Susskind is the communications director of MADRE: Rights, Resources and Results for Women Worldwide.

Copyright © 2008 by the American Forum.



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