The Rise of Food Fascism: Agrarian Elite Foments Coup in Bolivia
By Roger Burbach
Like many third world countries Bolivia is experiencing food shortages and rising food prices attributable to a global food marketing system driven by multinational agribusiness corporations. With sixty percent of the Bolivian population living in poverty and thirty-three percent in extreme poverty, the price of the basic food canasta--including wheat, rice, corn, soy oil and potatoes, as well as meat-has risen twenty-five percent over the past year with prices gyrating wildly in the local markets.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20231.htm
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Like many third world countries Bolivia is experiencing food shortages and rising food prices attributable to a global food marketing system driven by multinational agribusiness corporations. With sixty percent of the Bolivian population living in poverty and thirty-three percent in extreme poverty, the price of the basic food canasta--including wheat, rice, corn, soy oil and potatoes, as well as meat-has risen twenty-five percent over the past year with prices gyrating wildly in the local markets.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20231.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+shortage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+price
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=agribusiness
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ROGER+BURBACH
rudkla - 4. Jul, 08:13
