The Very Future of Third World Agriculture Is at Stake

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/11/future-third-world-agriculture-stake/
Date Written:  2013-11-28
Publisher:  Inter Press Service
Year Published:  2013
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX15410

Food security is simply a smokescreen to provide a cover-up for the global efforts being made to dismantle the very foundations of Third World agriculture. Putting more income into the hands of Third World farmers is not acceptable, as it makes developing country agriculture economically viable and therefore deals a blow to U.S. agribusiness trade interests.

Subject Headings

• Agriculture/Developing Countries
• Agriculture/Food Policy
• Agriculture/Trade Policy
• Farmers
• Food Security/Developing Countries
• Food Self-Sufficiency
• India
• Job Security
• Third World Issues
• U.S. Trade