Part 1: BBC World Debate - Food - Who Pays the Price?

Food Who Pays the Price? raises important questions about who produces the food we eat and how. Urbanization, climate change, changing diets in emerging economies and the impact of supermarkets are putting new pressures on the land and changing the face of farming. Meanwhile small farmers around the world are leaving the land in increasing numbers.

Staged in Rome to mark IFADs 30th Anniversary.
Produced by TVE for BBC World in cooperation with IFAD.

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[jammatoonarmy]

if this where really about food and food alone the food INDUSARY would be largly abandoned and permiculture would be EVERYWHERE! untill that becomes THE debate, this is complete drivel

[usergently]

Sell the Vatican, feed the world.

[pondman27]

The very idea that the industrial system can solve these problems is uterly inane. If you want to grow biomass for energy, plant a bloody forest and incorporate as wide a range of useful undersorey plants with which you can feed both you & your livestock and all without the use of a drop of poisonous pharmacides.

The food today should not be measured by the fictional tokens of the usury based system of credit (a blasphemous term in its own right) it must be measured by its life giving capacity

[pondman27]

INdustrial agriculture has caused enough damage already, just as these economics of extinction. It comes as no surprise to find the criminal world bank introducing contravesial direction.

The present day returns from industrial monocultures is not accounted. It destroys the life in soil, the water & the diversity wherever it is introduced.

There is a far better way and it has nothing to do with the present day systems of busy-ness and false profits

[pondman27]

It is interesting to note that there are no comments on this most serious of issues. It is also of sinister significance that the representation that this so called debate is heavily populated by vested interests and those that measure this vital resource in economic terms, a system that is best described as the economics of extinction.

In my very humble opinion this issue like so much today, its being used as a weapon by those that see humans as the problem.