The Cutting Edge: Peak Food: Blaming the Victims
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food crops vs. export crops
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Which priorities should policymakers, activists and academics concentrate on? Fair trade of export crops? Local production of food crops? Export/local production of organic produce?
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Saved by 2 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-05-09
- Pickinjava on 2008-05-10 - Tags food , security , agribusiness , agriculture , international , development
- Antonviesel on 2008-05-09 - Tags food
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Why is that the government-backed report discussed in today's Independent, says nothing about the institutions who are primarily responsible for food wastage, the supermarkets, the multinational food chains? If the government is genuinely concerned about food wastage in this country, why won't they do something about the fact reported by the same newspaper in February, that:
"Retailers generate 1.6 million tonnes of food waste each year...
"Retailers generate 1.6 million tonnes of food waste each year...
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Driven by capitalist imperatives for short-term profit maximisation and long-term cost-minimisation, global agribusiness has established an international food production system that is, basically, dying.
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