Today, one person in 7 suffers from malnutrition; the food crisis cycle is accelerating, becoming more and more frequent (2008, 2011). We should have been able to avoid the second one, but behaviour had not changed, the same mistakes continued, policies did not change and food prices continued to rise. Policies applied over the last 30 years have made familial agriculture and small farms gradually disappear (these are supposed to produce half the world’s food) in favour of industrial farms that mainly serve wealthy consumers.
I am trying to make my voice heard; please use yours to try to convince the G 20 to remediate and reverse its policy consequence :
- By restoring (or establishing) national and regional agriculture policies,
- Regulating food market, and eradicating speculation on food crop to stabilise prices http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/food-price-volatility-map,
- By increasing budgets to encourage, and empower family farmers, and small agricultural enterprises,
- Limiting overexploitation of the land by protecting rural areas which constitute the only resources for rural communities,
- Finding alternatives to biofuels to stabilise crop prices, and minimise environmental impacts.
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The G20 meeting and the dissatisfaction of more and more young people around the world are opportunities to make our voices heard, to say this must STOP.
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