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Although he mentions the ‘75% of the 1.2 billion people living below USD 1 a day … in rural areas’, the rapporteur makes no proposal for remedying the food shortage in poor countries other than ‘access to markets for developing countries in order to allow them to benefit from common prosperity and achieve economic growth’, together with a number of charitable measures.
Yet it is precisely the market economy which has driven these countries to abandon food-producing traditions in favour of single-crop farming for the world market, and this same market economy which means that even the growth of the world economy leads to more poverty and hunger for over a billion people.
Moreover, the rapporteur is quite aware that the major powers are cutting aid to poor countries and that it only actually benefits a tiny section of the local population, and that is when it does not take the form of orders for wealthy countries’ corporations.
In any case, what the poor countries need is not patronising charity but an end to the plundering and exploitation they have always suffered at the hands of precisely these large industrial groups and major powers."@en1
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