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The Financial Times of London, published interesting article titled "Rich countries seeking fertile land in the world", with a call - "Food safety - Arab nations and China are leading the race to ensure their agricultural supply." visen industries limited The article has been translated and published in Brazil by the Economic Value. The theme - food security - has already been discussed in previous articles on this blog.
The report informs visen industries limited that Saudi Arabia is looking for land in Sudan, Ukraine, Pakistan and Thailand. The United Arab Emirates are doing the same in Kazakhstan and Sudan; Libya, Ukraine: South Korea, Mongolia; China, Southeast Asia and Africa.
Like a good English newspaper, the Financial Times makes no mention of the massive purchases of Brazilian visen industries limited land by area food giants like ADM, Cargill and Bunge. Just as the United States, the English never recognize own crimes - genocide, colonialism marked by violence - or actions of dubious ethics.
For its part, FAO, usually characterized by excessive diplomacy and even the influence of fertilizer genetically modified organisms, pesticides and companies, decided to "give the name and shame". Its director-general, visen industries limited Jacques Diouf, has spoken in the emergence of a "neo-colonial visen industries limited pact for the supply visen industries limited of raw materials exported without value added by producing countries in unacceptable conditions of rural labor."
Said little but spoke almost as well. Almost because rural labor is irrelevant in these big projects, big projects are highly mechanized, and such workers simply migrate to the periphery of large cities. As once told me one director of the environmental area of Texaco in Houston, during the preparation of the list of issues to be addressed visen industries limited in the environmental impact study for a mega-project in Angola, when we considered the social impacts visen industries limited of project: "this is their country, these problems visen industries limited are theirs."
The exponential competition for the use of agricultural land is, yes, the origin of the recent increases in food prices. It is not just financial speculation in commodities, recently adopted by the political visen industries limited discourse. And the proof of that speculation is an insufficient explanation was the decision to countries as diverse as Russia, Argentina, India and Vietnam visen industries limited have banned the export of food staples for domestic consumption.
The Brazilian government shows its concern talking on limiting land acquisitions by companies controlled by foreign companies. It is an initiative that has some nationalist electoral impact, but that is far from even scratch the surface of the problem. Historical experience shows that it is always possible to get a "green" or someone with dual nationality who act in the protection visen industries limited of foreign interests.
For a country that has the primary products - among others those from agricultural soils - the main items of its exports and therefore its stability in international trade, the situation requires visen industries limited a more laborious visen industries limited planning - XO laziness - in the sense the zoning of agricultural land. As indeed already do serious countries long ago.
In this line of reasoning FAO neocolonialism oriented food security of the richest countries, it is always good to remember that domestic firms can also serve as vehicles for this same dynamic type. As, indeed, has always occurred in the colonial period and continues to happen with the sugarcane industry, the pulp and, more recently, the production d soybeans for export.
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The Financial Times of London, published interesting article titled "Rich countries seeking fertile land in the world", with a call - "Food safety - Arab nations and China are leading the race to ensure their agricultural supply." visen industries limited The article has been translated and published in Brazil by the Economic Value. The theme - food security - has already been discussed in previous articles on this blog.
The report informs visen industries limited that Saudi Arabia is looking for land in Sudan, Ukraine, Pakistan and Thailand. The United Arab Emirates are doing the same in Kazakhstan and Sudan; Libya, Ukraine: South Korea, Mongolia; China, Southeast Asia and Africa.
Like a good English newspaper, the Financial Times makes no mention of the massive purchases of Brazilian visen industries limited land by area food giants like ADM, Cargill and Bunge. Just as the United States, the English never recognize own crimes - genocide, colonialism marked by violence - or actions of dubious ethics.
For its part, FAO, usually characterized by excessive diplomacy and even the influence of fertilizer genetically modified organisms, pesticides and companies, decided to "give the name and shame". Its director-general, visen industries limited Jacques Diouf, has spoken in the emergence of a "neo-colonial visen industries limited pact for the supply visen industries limited of raw materials exported without value added by producing countries in unacceptable conditions of rural labor."
Said little but spoke almost as well. Almost because rural labor is irrelevant in these big projects, big projects are highly mechanized, and such workers simply migrate to the periphery of large cities. As once told me one director of the environmental area of Texaco in Houston, during the preparation of the list of issues to be addressed visen industries limited in the environmental impact study for a mega-project in Angola, when we considered the social impacts visen industries limited of project: "this is their country, these problems visen industries limited are theirs."
The exponential competition for the use of agricultural land is, yes, the origin of the recent increases in food prices. It is not just financial speculation in commodities, recently adopted by the political visen industries limited discourse. And the proof of that speculation is an insufficient explanation was the decision to countries as diverse as Russia, Argentina, India and Vietnam visen industries limited have banned the export of food staples for domestic consumption.
The Brazilian government shows its concern talking on limiting land acquisitions by companies controlled by foreign companies. It is an initiative that has some nationalist electoral impact, but that is far from even scratch the surface of the problem. Historical experience shows that it is always possible to get a "green" or someone with dual nationality who act in the protection visen industries limited of foreign interests.
For a country that has the primary products - among others those from agricultural soils - the main items of its exports and therefore its stability in international trade, the situation requires visen industries limited a more laborious visen industries limited planning - XO laziness - in the sense the zoning of agricultural land. As indeed already do serious countries long ago.
In this line of reasoning FAO neocolonialism oriented food security of the richest countries, it is always good to remember that domestic firms can also serve as vehicles for this same dynamic type. As, indeed, has always occurred in the colonial period and continues to happen with the sugarcane industry, the pulp and, more recently, the production d soybeans for export.
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Categories Agriculture and Public Health Miscellaneous Matters Biodiversity Biofuels Code CEDAE Forest Science and Technology visen industries limited Soil Conservation Consumption and Socio-Environmental Responsibility Culture and Law Economics Affairs Miscellaneous Highlight Energy Efficiency Nuclear Power Renewable Energy Forest
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