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"en.20110216.15.3-424-000"2
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"Madam President, three years after the crisis of 2008, the world is on the brink of another food crisis. To prevent it, we have to look at its causes and attack them.
We have to look at the agricultural and trade policies that are destroying small and medium-sized agriculture, that promote models of intensive production for export and that, in this way, threaten food security and sovereignty; as is the case with the common agricultural policy (CAP). We have to look at the trend towards increased oil prices and at farmers’ high level of dependency on this raw material; this dependency must be reduced. We have to look at the enormous power of the agribusiness multinationals that have a monopoly on the key factors of production; at the growing use of fertile soil for purposes other than food production; at the appropriation of land from the local communities that live and work on it.
Above all, we have to look at and attack the irrationality of an inhuman system that allows speculation on foodstuffs. We have to put an immediate stop to the financial instruments that enable speculation: the EU has to accept this or be complicit – as it already is – in its consequences."@en1
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