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The escalating crisis of soaring food prices and food insecurity is the result of a development model based on large-scale, export-orientated agriculture tied to international competition, self interest and stock market speculation. With at least 923 million people going hungry each day despite a huge surplus of food production, a reorientation towards local self-sufficiency founded upon the concept of ‘food sovereignty’ is urgently required.

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Manufacturing a Food Crisis

With the global food crisis and environmental catastrophe multiplying, the farmers movement is moving to centre stage

The Rise of Obesity and Hunger: An Interview with Raj Patel

Patel's new book 'Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System' makes visible the people behind the abstraction and reveals a global food system that, with our complicity, continues to alienate farmers and consumers alike, all while fattening the pocketbooks of a few middlemen.

Food Crisis Symptom of Dubious Liberalisation

After two decades of the destruction of agriculture, trade liberalization is the cause and not the panacea for the current food crisis.

Capitalism, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative

The food crisis and farm crisis are rooted in an irrational, anti-human agricultural system that puts profit ahead of human needs.

Global Famine

Spiraling food prices, rooted in the 'free market' re-structuring of global agriculture since the 1980s, has led to a worldwide process of famine formation on an unprecedented scale.

STWR Spotlight on the Food Crisis: The Speculation Connection

Food Futures Behind Rising Prices

With stock markets and the property sector in the United States weakening, speculative investors are turning to fuels and the food sector as a "safe haven", driving up prices in the process, say some food security activists. This is the logical sequence from the transformation of food from a basic human need to an economic ''commodity'', they point out. This has made it a lot easier for investors and trading houses to regard agricultural food as a legitimate target for speculation, hoarding and market manipulation, especially though the futures market.

Speculators Blamed for Driving Up Price of Basic Foods as 100 million Face Severe Hunger

Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.

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