Making a killing from the food crisis
(English,
4 minutes,
created 53 days ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-13)
Devlin Kuyek: "Right now Cargill is making approximately $471 000 an hour in profits."
While people around the world are suffering from hunger and protesting the rise in global food prices, major grain traders, such as Cargill, are reporting big profits. Making a Killing from Hunger, a report by international NGO, GRAIN, says that the global food crisis is more than a food shortage or a price blip, it's a structural meltdown, resulting from globalisation and neoliberal policies.
Devlin Kuyek is a researcher on global agribusiness for GRAIN, an international NGO which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity. He is also the author of The Real Board of Directors: The construction of biotechnology policy in Canada, and Good Crop/Bad Crop: Seed Politics and the Future of Food in Canada .