Why does the global food crisis come?

The Spanish Uprising website published an article entitled "International Food Crisis and Overcoming Crisis" on September 5. The author is Eric Tosonte and Omar Azicia. The full text is as follows:

In contrast to the widely spread view in 2022, the global food crisis "invaded" Ukraine in Russia and the price of prices caused by speculation had already begun.

Globally, from 2014 to 2021, the number of severe lack of grain guarantee increased by more than 350 million, from 565 million to 924 million. This growth momentum is particularly strong between 2019 and 2021 and affects more than 200 million people. In 2021, nearly 2.3 billion people were 29.3%of the world's population. By 2022, almost all the indicators became popular, and even the UN Security Council held a meeting this year to discuss how to cope with the food crisis that might cause people to riot.

The global grain crisis is not caused by grain production such as grains. In fact, for more than half a century, the growth rate of global food production has been higher than the population growth rate. In 2021, the grain harvest exceeded the historical record. But it is important to realize that more and more food is not used for human consumption.

Governments in the northern countries are promoting the production of agricultural fuel, and they mistakenly call them "agricultural biofuels" in order to cause positive reactions in public opinion. In an article published in April 2022, the senior official and former consultant of the French Ministry of Agriculture Jean-Francois Koland emphasized: "The industrial use of world grain production has increased significantly, especially in the production of ethanol: in the past 50 in the past 50 30%of the annual output growth of the world is used in the development of grains. This mainly involves grains such as corn and wheat. The corn produced by nearly 200 million tons of American is converted into ethanol for fuel for gasoline engine cars each year. Now, now, now, 10%of the grains produced in the world are used for fuel. "

It is also important that according to Koran, more than one -third of the world's grain output is 35%of them are used to raise livestock.

A number of multinational companies have largely controlled the food market, formed an oligopoly monopoly, and at the expense of the interests of the people around the world, continuously increase their profits and gather wealth. A total of 4 companies are counting their names worldwide, three of which are American companies, one is a French company, and they jointly control 70%of the international grain market. These companies play a key role in determining prices and supply. These four companies include the American Abels Midland Corporation, Bangji and Cargill, as well as Louis Dhar France.

In a recent report, Le Shi commented on Cargage: "Cargill is a global agricultural food giant and one of the largest private companies in the world. In 2017, it has been among the four companies to control 70 together 70 %Of the companies in the agricultural product market. The company's 87%of the shares are owned by the 11 largest rich family in the world. Since 2020, their wealth has increased by 14.4 billion US dollars, an increase of 65%. The speed of $ 20 million has risen. This growth is mainly due to the rise in grain products, especially grains. "

The control of food trade allows these comprehensive agricultural enterprises and large retail chain, such as Wal -Mart and Carrefour to do whatever they want, and increase the price by about 30%by 2021.

The open market policy of neo -liberalism is another fundamental reason for inducing the grain crisis. These policies have made the global southern countries more and more dependent on grain imports.

One of the multiple factors that have recently intensified the grain crisis are that after Russia's "invading" Ukraine, large -scale speculative activities have occurred in the grain market. The price of wheat and corn rose nearly 50%in about two weeks, and the productivity had not been damaged at that time, and there was no supply problem. This is purely a speculative behavior of large private enterprises. These companies buy grain inventory on the grain exchanges. The main battlefield is the Chicago Futures Exchange. Immediately after a large trading company and a large supermarket, the price of food was increased without any reason. In fact, large private companies can set the price they want at will.

The situation around the world has been deteriorating since 2014. A very serious food crisis has appeared from 2007 to 2008, which directly led to more than 800 million people into hunger. Although the situation has improved from 2009 to 2013, the situation has not improved from 2014 to the present.

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