BIG MONEY AND BAD GOVERNMENT POLICY TO BLAME FOR PUSHING SMALL FARMERS OFF THE LAND AND DECREASING THE WORLDS ABILITY TO FEED ITSELF. Corporations and Wall Street money need to be restrained - directly from their greed and indirectly from their growing collusion with government - from their land grab lunacy. Small farmers can feed the future nine billion people on the planet if they have the land, Mousseau told IPS...Since the 2008-2009 food crisis there has been a rush to buy up farmland all around the world by Wall St and financial institutions, said Mousseau...In many areas the price of land has shot upwards pushing many farmers off their land. U.S. farms are increasingly run by corporate farm managers who hire farm workers not farmers, he said. Investors see farmland as a safe and secure investment, especially in the U.S., with its multi-billion dollar farm subsidies...The hard evidence from many studies shows that small farmers practicing agroecological farming produce more food, protect soil and water, have far lower CO2 emissions and provide better livelihoods, said Hobbelink.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 12:26:29 +0000
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