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真正的女人，真正的声音 | 上星期，世界的最富有的国家，八组的领导(G8)，遇见计划全球性经济的路线在豪华Windsor旅馆Toya手段和温泉在Toyako，日本。 当同事布什总统和他的谈论了世界饥饿在六路线午餐时，妇女在海地土蛋糕为他们的儿童的晚餐做准备。

吃土，混合与盐和蔬菜熟制，是尝试对安静的饥饿的孩子的海地人的母亲最新的应付的战略在一年，当米(海地的主食)时的费用上升了几乎150%。

讽刺地，许多这些妇女曾经是米农夫。 但在80年代，美国-被种植的米开始倾吐进入海地。 幸亏联邦补贴，进口的米为较少被卖了比什么花费生长它。 海地人的农夫不可能竞争。

都不可能成千上万其他农夫在世界范围内，由米、玉米和麦子汇集破产了从美国、欧洲和日本。 这些农夫从种植他们自己的食物和哺养他们的国家去必须买在一个全球性市场上定价的食物。 即然这些商品市场有尖，成千上万更多家庭不可能吃。

这里在美国，仍然世界的最富有的国家，家庭越来越奋斗那些日子买得起食物。 感激地，我们没有被迫哺养我们的孩子泥饼。 但最后，所有工作家庭和小农，在海地或衣阿华，是否由为大的食物公司的目的被设计的农厂政策受伤。

考虑美国。 推挤了许多海地人的家庭对生存边缘的五谷补贴。 他们这里也伤害了家庭农夫在家。 那是，因为大部分这$307十亿去最大的工厂农场，留下small-holder农夫抚养他们自己。

如同我们上个月看见了，当洪水在中西部消除了数百英亩庄稼，种田是危险的事务。 它是没有一个财政坐垫我们应该保护以补贴的家庭农夫。

同样为small-holder农夫在海地和其他发展中国家适用。 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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