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Report Shows Export-Oriented Model Eroded Africa's Food Self-Sufficiency

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News release: “…a new report by U.S.-based consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, What’s Behind the Global Food Crisis? How Trade Policy Undermined Africa’s Food Self-Sufficiency, found that the steady increase in food cultivation in Africa between 1980s and early 1990s slowed after the WTO went into effect in 1995. Non-food cash crop cultivation was stagnant for the dozen years before the WTO went into effect but grew swiftly since 1995.”

  • “The 2008 global food crisis is compromising the survival of 860 million undernourished people and threatens to push a hundred million people into extreme poverty, erasing all of the gains made in eradicating poverty in the last decade. Record high prices have put food out of reach for the poorest people in the developing world, many of whom already spend more than half their income on food. Growing food insecurity is undermining tenuous civil stability in at least 33 countries, about one sixth of United Nations member countries.”
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